How much revenue did Cat Bait make?

$53k–$142k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Cat Bait sell?

Q: How many copies did Cat Bait sell?

38k to 63k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 38k–63k; $53k–$142k after Steam's cut $96k–$218k before Steam's cut; from 2k reviews (Overwhelmingly 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 Cat Bait and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Cat Bait's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 529–2k

best case 11k (Maze Mice)

Games like Cat Bait

A typical game among these

≈ 529–2k copies

≈ $418–$3k after Steam's cut

from ~32 reviews

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

None of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Maze Mice at ≈ 8k–14k copies, ≈ $23k–$62k after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 24 reviews in their first month; the range was 6 to 221.

Games with under about 100 reviews in month one almost never recover.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Bullet Hell (8 of 8) and Action Roguelike (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Action Roguelike + Bullet Time, priced around $10.
When they shipped: 6 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. You'd be launching into a busy stretch.

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 of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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