How much revenue did Cats and the Other Lives make?

$209k–$562k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Cats and the Other Lives sell?

Q: How many copies did Cats and the Other Lives sell?

38k to 62k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 38k–62k; $209k–$562k after Steam's cut $380k–$865k before the cut; from 2k 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 Cats and the Other Lives out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Cats and the Other Lives's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 662k–1.6M

best case 2.9M (OMORI)

Games like Cats and the Other Lives

The middle of these games

≈ 662k–1.6M copies

≈ $2.1M–$10.1M after Steam's cut

from ~19k 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: OMORI at ≈ 2.2M–3.6M copies, ≈ $12.0M–$32.4M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 4k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 1k to 6k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Story Rich (5 of 8) and Anime (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Psychological Horror + Story Rich, priced around $20.
The era: The games you compared span 2014 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 70 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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