How much revenue did A Shelter Full of Cats make?

$42k–$114k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did A Shelter Full of Cats sell?

Q: How many copies did A Shelter Full of Cats sell?

31k to 50k copies, based on its 1k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 31k–50k; $42k–$114k after Steam's cut $77k–$175k before the cut; from 1k reviews (Overwhelmingly 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 A Shelter Full of Cats out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including A Shelter Full of Cats's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 17k–90k

best case 226k (In Sound Mind)

Games like A Shelter Full of Cats

The middle of these games

≈ 17k–90k copies

≈ $30k–$299k after Steam's cut

from ~2k 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: In Sound Mind at ≈ 172k–280k copies, ≈ $1.7M–$4.5M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 310 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 67 to 710.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Hidden Object (6 of 8) and Story Rich (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Horror + Psychological Horror, priced around $35.
The era: The games you compared span 2015 to 2024, and 3 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 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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