How much revenue did The Cat Machine make?

$30k–$81k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Cat Machine sell?

Q: How many copies did The Cat Machine sell?

7k to 12k copies, based on its 149 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 7k–12k; $30k–$81k after Steam's cut $54k–$124k before Steam's cut; from 149 reviews (Very 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 The Cat Machine and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Cat Machine's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 5k–123k

best case 627k (A Little to the Left)

Games like The Cat Machine

A typical game among these

≈ 5k–123k copies

≈ $6k–$425k after Steam's cut

from ~306 reviews

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

3 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: A Little to the Left at ≈ 478k–777k copies, ≈ $2.0M–$5.3M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 46 reviews in their first month; the range was 24 to 579.

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

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Puzzle (8 of 8) and Cats (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Puzzle + Wholesome, priced around $15.
When they shipped: None of the similar games shipped in the last two years; the newest is from 2022. 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 31 for the most recent game here to about 36 for the oldest, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

Similar games

Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
while True: learn() 2019	Est. copies ≈ 237k–386k 27x vs typical SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $848k–$2.3M after Steam's cut $1.5M–$3.5M before Steam's cut	$12.99	8k reviews Very Positive	ProgrammingSimulation
Unlock The Cat 2021	Est. copies ≈ 4k–6k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $3k–$8k after Steam's cut $5k–$12k before Steam's cut	$2.99	148 reviews Very Positive	CasualPuzzle
A Little to the Left 2022	Est. copies ≈ 478k–777k 63x vs typical SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $2.0M–$5.3M after Steam's cut $3.6M–$8.2M before Steam's cut	$14.99	19k reviews Very Positive	PuzzleRelaxing
CATch the Stars 2020	Est. copies ≈ 10k–16k SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $5k–$14k after Steam's cut $10k–$22k before Steam's cut	$1.99	392 reviews Very Positive	CatsCute
CATch the Stars: Japan 2021	Est. copies ≈ 4k–6k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $2k–$5k after Steam's cut $4k–$8k before Steam's cut	$1.99	144 reviews Very Positive	CatsRelaxing
Cat Slide Tiles 2021	Est. copies ≈ 4k–6k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $3k–$8k after Steam's cut $6k–$13k before Steam's cut	$2.99	155 reviews Very Positive	RelaxingPuzzle
Kittens and Yarn 2021	Est. copies ≈ 5k–9k SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $3k–$8k after Steam's cut $5k–$12k before Steam's cut	$1.99	219 reviews Very Positive	CatsCute
Sudocats 2022	Est. copies ≈ 46k–74k 6.0x vs typical SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $25k–$67k after Steam's cut $46k–$104k before Steam's cut	$1.99	2k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	CasualCats