How much revenue did Challenge Dream Cat make?

$432–$1k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Challenge Dream Cat sell?

Q: How many copies did Challenge Dream Cat sell?

2k to 3k copies, based on its 64 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2k–3k; $432–$1k after Steam's cut $786–$2k before the cut; from 64 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 Challenge Dream Cat out and predicted the genre from its 3 similar games. Every figure here, including Challenge Dream Cat's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 4.2M–9.0M

best case 12.9M (Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition)

Games like Challenge Dream Cat

The middle of these games

≈ 4.2M–9.0M copies

≈ $13.7M–$24.8M after Steam's cut

from ~84k reviews

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

All 3 of your similar games are hits.

From a small set, so take it as a sketch.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Anime (1 of 3), 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: Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition at ≈ 9.8M–16.0M copies, ≈ $13.5M–$36.2M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Anime (1 of 3) and Classic (1 of 3).
The winners: Winners here lead with Tower Defense + Zombies, priced around $5.
The era: The games you compared span 2009 to 2018, 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 38 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
Mirror 2018	Est. copies ≈ 2.6M–4.2M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $1.4M–$3.8M after Steam's cut $2.5M–$5.8M before the cut	$1.99	84k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Sexual ContentNudity
Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition 2009	Est. copies ≈ 9.8M–16.0M 1.8x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $13.5M–$36.2M after Steam's cut $24.5M–$55.8M before the cut	$4.99	155k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Tower DefenseZombies
LIMBO 2011	Est. copies ≈ 3.9M–6.4M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $13.4M–$36.1M after Steam's cut $24.4M–$55.6M before the cut	$12.49	62k reviews Very Positive	Puzzle-PlatformerIndie