How much revenue did Lost Meow make?

$327–$878 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Lost Meow sell?

Q: How many copies did Lost Meow sell?

397 to 645 copies, based on its 16 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 397–645; $327–$878 after Steam's cut $594–$1k before Steam's cut; from 16 reviews (Positive)

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 Lost Meow and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Lost Meow's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 138k–439k

best case 972k (Dark Deception)

Games like Lost Meow

A typical game among these

≈ 138k–439k copies

≈ $406k–$1.2M after Steam's cut

from ~6k 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.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Runner (4 of 8), so its genre is hard to place.

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: Dark Deception at ≈ 741k–1.2M copies.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 3k reviews in their first month; the range was 409 to 6k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Runner (4 of 8) and Survival (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Horror + First-Person.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2013 to 2022, and none of them 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 79 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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Race The Sun 2013	Est. copies ≈ 402k–653k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $1.1M–$3.0M after Steam's cut $2.0M–$4.6M before Steam's cut	$9.99	6k reviews Very Positive	Procedural GenerationRunner
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Dark Deception 2018	Est. copies ≈ 741k–1.2M 3.8x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue Free	Free	24k reviews Very Positive	HorrorFree to Play
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