How much revenue did Аlien cat 4 make?

$265–$713 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Аlien cat 4 sell?

Q: How many copies did Аlien cat 4 sell?

322 to 524 copies, based on its 13 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 322–524; $265–$713 after Steam's cut $481–$1k before the cut; from 13 reviews (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 Аlien cat 4 out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Аlien cat 4's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 22k–71k

best case 565k (Touhou Luna Nights)

Games like Аlien cat 4

The middle of these games

≈ 22k–71k copies

≈ $94k–$197k after Steam's cut

from ~693 reviews

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

3 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Touhou Luna Nights at ≈ 430k–699k copies, ≈ $2.1M–$5.7M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 349 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 1 to 2k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Bullet Hell (7 of 8) and Shooter (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Metroidvania + Side Scroller, priced around $18. The breakout hits carry Metroidvania + Platformer + Action-Adventure; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2011 to 2025, and 2 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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