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How many copies did Captain Meow sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 248–403
$68–$181 after Steam's cut $123–$279 before the cut
from 10 reviews (Positive)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

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We left Captain Meow out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Captain Meow's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 27k–54k
best case 8.9M (Resident Evil 4)
Games like Captain Meow

The middle of these games

≈ 27k–54k copies

≈ $154k–$419k after Steam's cut

from ~1k 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.

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

Best case: Resident Evil 4 at ≈ 6.8M–11.1M copies, ≈ $74.9M–$201.3M 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 3k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 338 to 68k.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Zombies (6 of 8) and Horror (5 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Story Rich + Zombies, priced around $45. The breakout hits carry Story Rich + Post-apocalyptic + Zombies; a typical game here doesn't.
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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