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How many copies did Cats in Time sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 35k–57k
$48k–$129k after Steam's cut $88k–$199k before the cut
from 1k reviews (Overwhelmingly 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 in Time out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Cats in Time's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 57k–120k
best case 147k (A Castle Full of Cats)
Games like Cats in Time

The middle of these games

≈ 57k–120k copies

≈ $28k–$173k 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.

6 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: A Castle Full of Cats at ≈ 112k–182k copies, ≈ $123k–$330k after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here
About half the games that made it here had over 384 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 80 to 807.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Cats (8 of 8) and Hidden Object (8 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Cats + Hidden Object, priced around $4.
The era
The games you compared span 2018 to 2024, 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 38 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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