How much revenue did The Cat Lady make?

$982k–$2.6M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Cat Lady sell?

Q: How many copies did The Cat Lady sell?

397k to 646k copies, based on its 6k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 397k–646k; $982k–$2.6M after Steam's cut $1.8M–$4.1M before the cut; from 6k 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 The Cat Lady out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Cat Lady's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 10.2M–28.3M

best case 40.4M (Wallpaper Engine)

Games like The Cat Lady

The middle of these games

≈ 10.2M–28.3M copies

≈ $85.5M–$257.8M after Steam's cut

from ~359k 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.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is First-Person (4 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: Wallpaper Engine at ≈ 30.8M–50.0M copies, ≈ $42.2M–$113.5M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on First-Person (4 of 8) and FPS (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Mature + Utilities, priced around $5.
The era: The games you compared span 2004 to 2020, and none of them 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 79 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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