How much revenue did A Building Full of Cats make?

$91k–$246k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did A Building Full of Cats sell?

Q: How many copies did A Building Full of Cats sell?

111k to 181k copies, based on its 4k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 111k–181k; $91k–$246k after Steam's cut $166k–$378k before the cut; from 4k reviews (Overwhelmingly 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 A Building Full of Cats out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including A Building Full of Cats's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 79k–167k

best case 618k (A Little to the Left)

Games like A Building Full of Cats

The middle of these games

≈ 79k–167k copies

≈ $104k–$1.2M after Steam's cut

from ~3k 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.

Best case: A Little to the Left at ≈ 471k–765k copies, ≈ $1.9M–$5.2M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 396 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 80 to 807.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Cats (5 of 8) and Hidden Object (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Puzzle + Wholesome, priced around $15.
The era: Only 1 of your 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. 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 of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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