How much revenue did Calico make?

$411k–$1.1M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Calico sell?

Q: How many copies did Calico sell?

125k to 202k copies, based on its 5k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 125k–202k; $411k–$1.1M after Steam's cut $747k–$1.7M before the cut; from 5k 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 Calico out and predicted the genre from its 4 similar games. Every figure here, including Calico's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 945k–1.4M

best case 2.0M (NEKOPARA Vol. 1)

Games like Calico

The middle of these games

≈ 945k–1.4M copies

≈ $2.5M–$4.6M after Steam's cut

from ~18k reviews

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

All 4 of your similar games are hits.

From a small set, so take it as a sketch.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Anime (2 of 4), so the genre you lead with is still undecided.

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–$11.3M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Anime (2 of 4) and Hentai (2 of 4).
The winners: Winners here lead with Hentai + Anime, priced around $10.
The era: The games you compared span 2014 to 2022, and none of them 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 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
A Little to the Left 2022	Est. copies ≈ 471k–765k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $1.9M–$5.2M after Steam's cut $3.5M–$8.0M before the cut	$14.99	19k reviews Very Positive	PuzzleRelaxing
NEKOPARA Vol. 0 2015	Est. copies ≈ 868k–1.4M SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $714k–$1.9M after Steam's cut $1.3M–$3.0M before the cut	$2.99	18k reviews Very Positive	AnimeNudity
Cat Goes Fishing 2015	Est. copies ≈ 803k–1.3M SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $1.5M–$4.2M after Steam's cut $2.8M–$6.4M before the cut	$6.99	16k reviews Very Positive	FishingCats
NEKOPARA Vol. 1 2014	Est. copies ≈ 1.5M–2.5M SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $4.2M–$11.3M after Steam's cut $7.7M–$17.5M before the cut	$9.99	27k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	HentaiAnime