How much revenue did The Purring Quest make?

$234k–$628k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Purring Quest sell?

Q: How many copies did The Purring Quest sell?

85k to 138k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 85k–138k; $234k–$628k after Steam's cut $425k–$967k before the cut; from 2k 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 Purring Quest out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Purring Quest's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1k–3k

best case 1.5M (Nine Sols)

Games like The Purring Quest

The middle of these games

≈ 1k–3k copies

≈ $3k–$5k after Steam's cut

from ~45 reviews

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

1 of your 8 similar games is a hit.

Best case: Nine Sols at ≈ 1.1M–1.8M copies, ≈ $9.2M–$24.7M 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 16 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 3 to 6k.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on 2D Platformer (6 of 8) and Cats (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Metroidvania + Souls-like, priced around $30. The breakout hits carry Souls-like + Metroidvania + Difficult; a typical game here doesn't.
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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