How much revenue did Cats Love Boxes make?

$12k–$33k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Cats Love Boxes sell?

Q: How many copies did Cats Love Boxes sell?

11k to 18k copies, based on its 457 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 11k–18k; $12k–$33k after Steam's cut $23k–$51k before the cut; from 457 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 Cats Love Boxes out and predicted the genre from its 4 similar games. Every figure here, including Cats Love Boxes's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 430k–4.1M

best case 3.7M (Planet Zoo)

Games like Cats Love Boxes

The middle of these games

≈ 430k–4.1M copies

≈ $2.2M–$39.3M after Steam's cut

from ~42k reviews

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

All 4 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 Hack and Slash (2 of 4), 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: Planet Zoo at ≈ 2.8M–4.6M copies, ≈ $34.7M–$93.4M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Hack and Slash (2 of 4) and Action RPG (1 of 4).
The winners: Winners here lead with Management + Simulation, priced around $45.
The era: None of the games you compared shipped in the last two years; the newest is from 2019. That says more about your picks than about the market, so add newer similar games to read the timing.

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 36 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).

Similar games

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BattleBlock Theater® 2014	Est. copies ≈ 4.1M–6.6M 1.7x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $16.8M–$45.2M after Steam's cut $30.6M–$69.6M before the cut	$14.99	73k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Co-op Platformer
Planet Zoo 2019	Est. copies ≈ 2.8M–4.6M 2.3x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $34.7M–$93.4M after Steam's cut $63.2M–$143.7M before the cut	$44.99	97k reviews Very Positive	Management Simulation
Cat Quest II 2019	Est. copies ≈ 207k–337k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $854k–$2.3M after Steam's cut $1.6M–$3.5M before the cut	$14.99	7k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	AdventureExploration
Cat Quest 2017	Est. copies ≈ 368k–598k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $1.3M–$3.5M after Steam's cut $2.4M–$5.4M before the cut	$12.99	11k reviews Very Positive	AdventureRPG