How much revenue did City of Cats make?

$987–$3k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did City of Cats sell?

Q: How many copies did City of Cats sell?

719 to 1k copies, based on its 29 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 719–1k; $987–$3k after Steam's cut $2k–$4k before the cut; from 29 reviews (Mostly Negative)

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

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 4.4M–8.8M

best case 12.7M (Assetto Corsa)

Games like City of Cats

The middle of these games

≈ 4.4M–8.8M copies

≈ $98.5M after Steam's cut

from ~150k reviews

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

4 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Assetto Corsa at ≈ 9.7M–15.8M copies, ≈ $53.4M–$143.6M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

The games that made it here had under 21k reviews in their first month.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Simulation (8 of 8) and Sports (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Racing + Automobile Sim, priced around $20.
The era: The games you compared span 2014 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 70 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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Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
Assetto Corsa 2014	Est. copies ≈ 9.7M–15.8M SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $53.4M–$143.6M after Steam's cut $97.1M–$220.9M before the cut	$19.99	173k reviews Very Positive	RacingAutomobile Sim
EA SPORTS™ FIFA 23 2022	Est. copies ≈ 3.7M–6.1M SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue Free	Free	150k reviews Mixed	Football (Soccer)Sports
FIFA 22 2021	Est. copies ≈ 3.0M–4.8M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue Free	Free	120k reviews Very Positive	Football (Soccer)Sports
The Cat Games 2017	Est. copies ≈ 35k–56k too small to compare SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue $19k–$51k after Steam's cut $35k–$79k before the cut	$1.99	1k reviews Very Positive	CasualCute
PURRfection! The cat tossing game!! 2020	Est. copies ≈ 50–81 too small to compare SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $14–$36 after Steam's cut $25–$56 before the cut	$0.99	2 reviews 2 user reviews	CatsCasual
Fisti-Fluffs 2021	Est. copies ≈ 918–1k too small to compare SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $5k–$14k after Steam's cut $9k–$21k before the cut	$19.99	37 reviews Mixed	ActionCasual
Fix My Cat Doc 2022	Est. copies ≈ 843–1k too small to compare SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $229–$617 after Steam's cut $417–$949 before the cut	$0.99	34 reviews Mostly Positive	AdventureCasual
Forest Showdown：Cat Hero Battle 2024	Est. copies ≈ 0 too small to compare SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $0 after Steam's cut $0 before the cut	$3.99	0 reviews No user reviews	CasualSports