How much revenue did Cat Museum make?

$31k–$83k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Cat Museum sell?

Q: How many copies did Cat Museum sell?

23k to 37k copies, based on its 910 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 23k–37k; $31k–$83k after Steam's cut $56k–$128k before the cut; from 910 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 Cat Museum out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Cat Museum's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 223k–708k

best case 1.1M (Superliminal)

Games like Cat Museum

The middle of these games

≈ 223k–708k copies

≈ $392k–$4.3M after Steam's cut

from ~9k 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: Superliminal at ≈ 843k–1.4M copies, ≈ $4.6M–$12.5M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 2k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 616 to 3k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Surreal (8 of 8) and Puzzle (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Puzzle + First-Person, priced around $20.
The era: The games you compared span 2013 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 79 for the oldest, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

Similar games

Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
Superliminal 2020	Est. copies ≈ 843k–1.4M 3.8x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $4.6M–$12.5M after Steam's cut $8.4M–$19.2M before the cut	$19.99	34k reviews Very Positive	PuzzleFirst-Person
Samorost 3 2016	Est. copies ≈ 231k–375k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $1.3M–$3.4M after Steam's cut $2.3M–$5.2M before the cut	$19.99	6k reviews Very Positive	Point & ClickHand-drawn
INDIKA 2024	Est. copies ≈ 229k–372k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $1.6M–$4.2M after Steam's cut $2.9M–$6.5M before the cut	$24.99	9k reviews Very Positive	SurrealPuzzle
Manifold Garden 2020	Est. copies ≈ 211k–343k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $1.2M–$3.1M after Steam's cut $2.1M–$4.8M before the cut	$19.99	9k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	PuzzleSurreal
Antichamber 2013	Est. copies ≈ 1.1M–1.8M 2.0x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $6.2M–$16.6M after Steam's cut $11.2M–$25.5M before the cut	$19.99	18k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	PuzzleFirst-Person
Rusty Lake Hotel 2016	Est. copies ≈ 439k–713k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $240k–$645k after Steam's cut $436k–$993k before the cut	$1.99	11k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	PuzzlePoint & Click
PUSS! 2018	Est. copies ≈ 47k–77k SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue $130k–$349k after Steam's cut $236k–$537k before the cut	$9.99	2k reviews Very Positive	PsychedelicDifficult
Hyperbolica 2022	Est. copies ≈ 33k–53k SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $117k–$315k after Steam's cut $213k–$484k before the cut	$12.99	1k reviews Very Positive	SurrealExploration