How much revenue did Helper Cat make?

$358–$962 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Helper Cat sell?

Q: How many copies did Helper Cat sell?

1k to 2k copies, based on its 53 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1k–2k; $358–$962 after Steam's cut $650–$1k before the cut; from 53 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 Helper Cat out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Helper Cat's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 635–6k

best case 52k (Sokobond)

Games like Helper Cat

The middle of these games

≈ 635–6k copies

≈ $770–$39k after Steam's cut

from ~59 reviews

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

None of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Sokobond at ≈ 40k–65k copies, ≈ $165k–$443k after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 17 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 9 to 205.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Puzzle (8 of 8) and Sokoban (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Sokoban + Science, priced around $15.
The era: The games you compared span 2014 to 2025, and 3 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 70 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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