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How many copies did Cat Cafe Manager sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 79k–129k
$437k–$1.2M after Steam's cut $794k–$1.8M before the cut
from 3k reviews (Very 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 Cat Cafe Manager out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Cat Cafe Manager's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 64k–95k
best case 224k (My Dream Setup)
Games like Cat Cafe Manager

The middle of these games

≈ 64k–95k copies

≈ $402k–$849k after Steam's cut

from ~2k 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: My Dream Setup at ≈ 171k–278k copies, ≈ $282k–$758k 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 1k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 252 to 2k.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Simulation (7 of 8) and Cozy (5 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Simulation, priced around $8. The breakout hits carry Relaxing + Casual + Design & Illustration; a typical game here doesn't.
The era
Only 3 of your 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. That says more about your picks than about the market, so add newer similar games to read the timing.
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 of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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