How much revenue did Cat Quest make?

$1.3M–$3.5M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Cat Quest sell?

Q: How many copies did Cat Quest sell?

369k to 600k copies, based on its 11k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 369k–600k; $1.3M–$3.5M after Steam's cut $2.4M–$5.5M before Steam's cut; from 11k 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 Cat Quest and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Cat Quest's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 232k–583k

best case 2.0M (NEKOPARA Vol. 1)

Games like Cat Quest

A typical game among these

≈ 232k–583k copies

≈ $1.4M–$2.5M after Steam's cut

from ~7k 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.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Anime (3 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: NEKOPARA Vol. 1 at ≈ 1.5M–2.5M copies, ≈ $4.2M–$11.4M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Anime (3 of 8) and Dating Sim (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Hentai + Anime, priced around $10.
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 70 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
NEKOPARA Vol. 3 2017	Est. copies ≈ 414k–672k 1.8x vs typical SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $1.1M–$3.1M after Steam's cut $2.1M–$4.7M before Steam's cut	$9.99	12k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	HentaiSexual Content
Cattails \| Become a Cat! 2017	Est. copies ≈ 93k–151k SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $382k–$1.0M after Steam's cut $695k–$1.6M before Steam's cut	$14.99	3k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	CatsLife Sim
Tales of the Neon Sea 2019	Est. copies ≈ 147k–239k SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $687k–$1.8M after Steam's cut $1.2M–$2.8M before Steam's cut	$16.99	5k reviews Very Positive	Pixel GraphicsCyberpunk
Cat Quest II 2019	Est. copies ≈ 209k–339k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $860k–$2.3M after Steam's cut $1.6M–$3.6M before Steam's cut	$14.99	7k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	AdventureExploration
Epic Battle Fantasy 5 2018	Est. copies ≈ 187k–304k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $1.3M–$3.5M after Steam's cut $2.3M–$5.3M before Steam's cut	$24.99	6k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	JRPGFunny
Epic Battle Fantasy 4 2014	Est. copies ≈ 187k–305k SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $773k–$2.1M after Steam's cut $1.4M–$3.2M before Steam's cut	$14.99	3k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	JRPGTurn-Based
NEKOPARA Vol. 1 2014	Est. copies ≈ 1.5M–2.5M 4.1x vs typical SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $4.2M–$11.4M after Steam's cut $7.7M–$17.5M before Steam's cut	$9.99	27k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	HentaiAnime
NEKOPARA Vol. 2 2016	Est. copies ≈ 535k–870k 1.9x vs typical SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $1.5M–$4.0M after Steam's cut $2.7M–$6.1M before Steam's cut	$9.99	13k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	AnimeSexual Content