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How many copies did Katy and Bob: Safari Cafe sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 6k–10k
$26k–$69k after Steam's cut $47k–$106k before Steam's cut
from 205 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 Katy and Bob: Safari Cafe and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Katy and Bob: Safari Cafe's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 96k–493k
best case 883k (Turmoil)
Games like Katy and Bob: Safari Cafe

A typical game among these

≈ 96k–493k copies

≈ $663k–$4.4M after Steam's cut

from ~4k 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.

Best case: Turmoil at ≈ 673k–1.1M copies, ≈ $2.4M–$6.5M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like
About half the games that made it here had over 1k reviews in their first month; the range was 196 to 15k.
The genre you'd be entering
These games
The similar games share Management (8 of 8) and Economy (6 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Management + Mining, priced around $13.
When they shipped
4 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years, so this genre is actively shipping.
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 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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