How much revenue did A Cats Life make?

$14–$36 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did A Cats Life sell?

Q: How many copies did A Cats Life sell?

50 to 81 copies, based on its 2 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 50–81; $14–$36 after Steam's cut $25–$56 before the cut; from 2 reviews (2 user reviews); Thin evidence: 2 reviews. That range swings on one or two people, so read it as a hint, not a measurement.

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 Cats Life out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including A Cats Life's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 47k–167k

best case 431k (WolfQuest: Anniversary Edition)

Games like A Cats Life

The middle of these games

≈ 47k–167k copies

≈ $493k–$1.3M 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.

6 of your 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Building (3 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: WolfQuest: Anniversary Edition at ≈ 328k–534k copies, ≈ $2.7M–$7.3M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 1k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 119 to 11k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Building (3 of 8) and Life Sim (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Life Sim + Survival, priced around $30.
The era: Only 3 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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