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How many copies did White Cat Town Mystery sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 174–282
$191–$512 after Steam's cut $347–$788 before Steam's cut
from 7 reviews (7 user reviews)
Only 7 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 White Cat Town Mystery and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including White Cat Town Mystery's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 352k–457k
best case 1.7M (Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trilogy)
Games like White Cat Town Mystery

A typical game among these

≈ 352k–457k copies

≈ $3.3M–$4.9M after Steam's cut

from ~8k reviews

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

All 8 of the similar games are hits.

These similar games lean toward the genre's biggest winners; the typical figure comes from its ordinary successes.

Best case: Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trilogy at ≈ 1.3M–2.1M copies, ≈ $10.8M–$28.9M after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering
These games
The similar games share Mystery (8 of 8) and Story Rich (8 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Anime + Visual Novel, priced around $25. The breakout hits carry Great Soundtrack + Singleplayer + Detective; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped
None of the similar games shipped in the last two years; the newest is from 2019. That says more about which games were found than about the market.
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 36 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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