How much revenue did Cataplexy make?

$801–$2k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Cataplexy sell?

Q: How many copies did Cataplexy sell?

1k to 2k copies, based on its 59 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1k–2k; $801–$2k after Steam's cut $1k–$3k before the cut; from 59 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 Cataplexy out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Cataplexy's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 161k–1.4M

best case 1.3M (The Coffin of Andy and Leyley)

Games like Cataplexy

The middle of these games

≈ 161k–1.4M copies

≈ $427k–$14.4M after Steam's cut

from ~28k reviews

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

7 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: The Coffin of Andy and Leyley at ≈ 971k–1.6M copies, ≈ $3.2M–$8.6M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 845 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 73 to 5k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Story Rich (8 of 8) and Visual Novel (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Psychological + Dark Comedy, priced around $12.
The era: The games you compared span 2016 to 2023, 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 52 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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