How much revenue did Copycat make?

$594k–$1.6M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Copycat sell?

Q: How many copies did Copycat sell?

144k to 234k copies, based on its 6k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 144k–234k; $594k–$1.6M after Steam's cut $1.1M–$2.5M before the cut; from 6k 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 Copycat out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Copycat's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 103k–255k

best case 521k (The Cat Lady)

Games like Copycat

The middle of these games

≈ 103k–255k copies

≈ $357k–$1.8M after Steam's cut

from ~4k 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.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Story Rich (4 of 8), so the genre you lead with is still undecided.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: The Cat Lady at ≈ 397k–646k copies, ≈ $982k–$2.6M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 87 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 27 to 662.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Story Rich (4 of 8) and Cats (2 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Horror + Story Rich, priced around $9.
The era: The games you compared span 2013 to 2022, 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 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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