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How many copies did White Cat Town Mystery sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 174–282
$191–$512 after Steam's cut $347–$788 before the cut
from 7 reviews (7 user reviews)
Thin evidence: 7 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.

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

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 349k–445k
best case 1.7M (Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trilogy)
Games like White Cat Town Mystery

The middle of these games

≈ 349k–445k copies

≈ $3.3M–$4.8M after Steam's cut

from ~8k 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.

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

Best case: Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trilogy at ≈ 1.3M–2.1M copies, ≈ $10.7M–$28.6M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Mystery (8 of 8) and Story Rich (8 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Anime + Visual Novel, priced around $25. The breakout hits carry Great Soundtrack + Singleplayer + Detective; a typical game here doesn't.
The era
None of the games you compared shipped in the last two years; the newest is from 2019. 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 that falls with release age, from about 36 for the most recent game here to about 61 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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