How much revenue did Cat Powered UFO make?

$920–$2k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Cat Powered UFO sell?

Q: How many copies did Cat Powered UFO sell?

670 to 1k copies, based on its 27 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 670–1k; $920–$2k after Steam's cut $2k–$4k before the cut; from 27 reviews (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 Cat Powered UFO out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Cat Powered UFO's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 221k–292k

best case 3.1M (A Dance of Fire and Ice)

Games like Cat Powered UFO

The middle of these games

≈ 221k–292k copies

≈ $1.8M–$3.7M after Steam's cut

from ~8k 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 Comedy (3 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: A Dance of Fire and Ice at ≈ 2.4M–3.9M copies, ≈ $4.0M–$10.6M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Comedy (3 of 8) and Short (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Rhythm + Music, priced around $6. The breakout hits carry Rhythm + Music + Difficult; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2018 to 2025, and 1 of your 7 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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