How much revenue did The Princess, the Stray Cat, and Matters of the Heart make?

$59k–$159k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Princess, the Stray Cat, and Matters of the Heart sell?

Q: How many copies did The Princess, the Stray Cat, and Matters of the Heart sell?

11k to 17k copies, based on its 373 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 11k–17k; $59k–$159k after Steam's cut $107k–$244k before the cut; from 373 reviews (Very Positive)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

Does this actually work?

We left The Princess, the Stray Cat, and Matters of the Heart out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Princess, the Stray Cat, and Matters of the Heart's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 379k–814k

best case 2.7M (Magicka)

Games like The Princess, the Stray Cat, and Matters of the Heart

The middle of these games

≈ 379k–814k copies

≈ $2.0M–$5.4M after Steam's cut

from ~7k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

All 8 of your similar games are hits.

Best case: Magicka at ≈ 2.0M–3.3M copies, ≈ $5.6M–$15.0M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Fantasy (6 of 8) and Comedy (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Comedy + Co-op, priced around $10.
The era: The games you compared span 2009 to 2024, and 1 of your 8 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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