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How many copies did Little Kitty, Big City sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 342k–557k
$2.4M–$6.3M after Steam's cut $4.3M–$9.7M before the cut
from 14k reviews (Overwhelmingly Positive)

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

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We left Little Kitty, Big City out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Little Kitty, Big City's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 102k–238k
best case 618k (A Little to the Left)
Games like Little Kitty, Big City

The middle of these games

≈ 102k–238k copies

≈ $184k–$1.2M after Steam's cut

from ~4k 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: A Little to the Left at ≈ 471k–765k copies, ≈ $1.9M–$5.2M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here
About half the games that made it here had over 504 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 27 to 807.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Cats (6 of 8) and Puzzle (6 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Puzzle + Wholesome, priced around $15.
The era
The games you compared span 2017 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 43 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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