How much revenue did Cat On The Desktop make?

$27–$73 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Cat On The Desktop sell?

Q: How many copies did Cat On The Desktop sell?

99 to 161 copies, based on its 4 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 99–161; $27–$73 after Steam's cut $49–$112 before Steam's cut; from 4 reviews (4 user reviews); Only 4 reviews so far, so that range swings on one or two people. Read it as a hint, not a measurement.

Copies are estimated from the public review count, adjusted for release year, and cross-checked against SteamSpy's own estimate.

Did the prediction match what actually happened?

We hid Cat On The Desktop and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Cat On The Desktop's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.7M–2.6M

best case 57.1M (Stardew Valley)

Games like Cat On The Desktop

A typical game among these

≈ 1.7M–2.6M copies

≈ $12.8M–$19.4M after Steam's cut

from ~52k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019's Steam releases earned $34k or more before Steam's cut, so plan for that or less.

7 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Stardew Valley at ≈ 43.5M–70.7M copies, ≈ $179.4M–$482.4M after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 14k reviews in their first month; the range was 1 to 69k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Simulation (8 of 8) and Life Sim (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Farming Sim + Life Sim, priced around $15. The breakout hits carry Pixel Graphics + Relaxing + Agriculture; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2016 to 2026, and 3 of the 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 52 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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