Single tagdata 30 Sep 2026
Cats: 476 releases in the last 12 months
There is no price yet: it needs 30 or more indie paid launches in the last four complete quarters. 24 of 580 matured launches earned $100k or more. Releases rose 43% on the year before: 476 against 334.
- Price
- n/a under 30 launches
- Price vs a year earlier
- n/a no price
- Releases, 12 months
- 476 334 the year before
- Upcoming games
- 650 coming soon on Steam
- Games on the store
- 2,209 carrying both tags
Boards
as of 30 Sep 2026Where this tag stands on each board of the front page. Every value carries its 90% interval and its sample.
Boards rank genres and tag pairs. This tag is a theme, mood, feature or presentation tag, so it is never ranked as a market on its own; its pairs are listed below.
Launch success
Matured indie paid launches that earned an estimated $100k or more, against the number expected for games at the same price tier and launch quarter.
- Launches
- 580
- Hit rate
- 4.1%2.7% to 5.8%
- Expected rate
- 3.3%
Under 30 matured launches, so this tag is not on the launch success board. Read these counts as a small sample.
Revenue spread
580 launchesEstimated lifetime gross of the same matured launches. Half earned less than the median; one in ten earned more than the top figure.
- Bottom tenth
- $40
- Median
- $847
- Top tenth
- $14,595
Estimated from Steam review counts. Lifetime to date, so it differs from the first-year price above.
Supply
raw release countsGames released with this tag, last 12 months against the 12 before.
- Change
- +43%
Tag
- CatsNot a genreA theme, mood, feature or presentation tag: never ranked as a market on its own, only inside pairs.
Comparable games
8 indie titlesThe biggest indie games in this tag by estimated lifetime gross. Revenue is shown as a number at 50 or more reviews, as a range at 10 to 49, and not at all below 10.
- Mewgenics (opens the Steam store)2026 · 50,493 reviews, 89% positiveest. $29M
- Little Kitty, Big City (opens the Steam store)2024 · 10,445 reviews, 96% positiveest. $5M
- Cat Mail Co. (opens the Steam store)2026 · 6,609 reviews, 92% positiveest. $1.9M
- Copycat (opens the Steam store)2024 · 4,641 reviews, 89% positiveest. $1.4M
- Cat Quest III (opens the Steam store)2024 · 3,124 reviews, 94% positiveest. $1.1M
- Crypt Custodian (opens the Steam store)2024 · 2,950 reviews, 96% positiveest. $1.1M
- Bookshop Simulator (opens the Steam store)2025 · 1,530 reviews, 92% positiveest. $619k
- Animal Shelter 2 (opens the Steam store)2025 · 1,216 reviews, 80% positiveest. $615k
More with Cats
pairs with Cats- Adventure + Cats$1,84443 launches priced, 70 releases in 12 months
- Family Friendly + Cats$1,33045 launches priced, 62 releases in 12 months
- Point & Click + Cats$1,12857 launches priced, 110 releases in 12 months
- Cats + Cozy$1,10583 launches priced, 142 releases in 12 months
- Relaxing + Cats$887143 launches priced, 201 releases in 12 months
- Cats + Wholesome$88478 launches priced, 95 releases in 12 months
- Action + Cats$87930 launches priced, 49 releases in 12 months
- Hidden Object + Cats$865105 launches priced, 132 releases in 12 months
- Puzzle + Cats$852124 launches priced, 203 releases in 12 months
- Cute + Cats$842199 launches priced, 308 releases in 12 months
- Casual + Cats$802204 launches priced, 350 releases in 12 months
- Hand-drawn + Cats$80264 launches priced, 55 releases in 12 months
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