How much revenue did Cat Detective Albert Wilde make?

$14k–$37k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Cat Detective Albert Wilde sell?

Q: How many copies did Cat Detective Albert Wilde sell?

4k to 7k copies, based on its 170 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 4k–7k; $14k–$37k after Steam's cut $25k–$58k before the cut; from 170 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 Detective Albert Wilde out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Cat Detective Albert Wilde's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 3.5M–5.1M

best case 22.3M (Tomb Raider Game of the Year)

Games like Cat Detective Albert Wilde

The middle of these games

≈ 3.5M–5.1M copies

≈ $34.7M–$48.8M after Steam's cut

from ~64k 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.

Your picks lean toward this genre's biggest survivors; the typical figure reads from its ordinary successes.

Best case: Tomb Raider Game of the Year at ≈ 17.0M–27.6M copies, ≈ $93.5M–$251.3M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 16k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 1k to 28k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Story Rich (8 of 8) and Third Person (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Story Rich, priced around $30.
The era: The games you compared span 2012 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).

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