How much revenue did Hidden Cats in Spooky Town make?

$9k–$23k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Hidden Cats in Spooky Town sell?

Q: How many copies did Hidden Cats in Spooky Town sell?

8k to 13k copies, based on its 313 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 8k–13k; $9k–$23k after Steam's cut $15k–$35k before the cut; from 313 reviews (Very Positive)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

Does this actually work?

We left Hidden Cats in Spooky Town out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Hidden Cats in Spooky Town's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 162k–1.1M

best case 3.7M (Planet Zoo)

Games like Hidden Cats in Spooky Town

The middle of these games

≈ 162k–1.1M copies

≈ $360k–$6.8M after Steam's cut

from ~12k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

All 8 of your similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Cats (4 of 8), so the genre you lead with is still undecided.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: Planet Zoo at ≈ 2.8M–4.6M copies, ≈ $34.8M–$93.6M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 701 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 117 to 18k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Cats (4 of 8) and Simulation (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Management + Simulation, priced around $45.
The era: The games you compared span 2015 to 2025, and 2 of your 8 shipped in the last two years.

How these numbers were worked out

A hit here: 1,000+ reviews, roughly $150k+ before Steam's cut (a standard indie benchmark).

Copies come from each game's reviews times a sales-per-review rate that falls with release age, from about 31 for the most recent game here to about 61 for the oldest, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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