How much revenue did Bad Cat make?

$6k–$16k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Bad Cat sell?

Q: How many copies did Bad Cat sell?

2k to 4k copies, based on its 87 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2k–4k; $6k–$16k after Steam's cut $11k–$25k before the cut; from 87 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 Bad Cat out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Bad Cat's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.4M–3.6M

best case 3.8M (GRIS)

Games like Bad Cat

The middle of these games

≈ 1.4M–3.6M copies

≈ $5.6M–$17.8M after Steam's cut

from ~44k 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.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Puzzle (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: GRIS at ≈ 2.9M–4.8M copies, ≈ $12.1M–$32.4M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Puzzle (4 of 8) and Co-op (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Beautiful + Female Protagonist, priced around $15.
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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