How many copies has Cat in the Box sold?

indielist estimates Cat in the Box has sold between 68,016 and 158,704 units (median 113,360), derived from its 1,417 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.

Who developed Cat in the Box?

Cat in the Box was developed by Gustav and published by Gustav.

Who published Cat in the Box?

Cat in the Box was published by Gustav, developed by Gustav. See Gustav's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.

When was Cat in the Box released?

Cat in the Box was released in 2020.

How many reviews does Cat in the Box have on Steam?

Cat in the Box has 1,417 Steam reviews, of which 94% are positive.

Is Cat in the Box worth playing?

Steam players rate Cat in the Box 94% positive across 1,417 reviews. indielist doesn't score games editorially; it surfaces public review sentiment and a white-box sales estimate so you can judge reception and reach yourself.

Cat in the Box

May 1, 2020 Adventure $6.99

Developer Gustav Publisher Gustav

Profile updated Jul 2026

Adventure indie game Cat in the Box launched in 2020 from developer and publisher gustav. It has 1,555 Steam reviews with 94% positive sentiment, and its $6.99 initial price places it in the budget indie range.

Cat in the Box is a 2020 Adventure game developed by Gustav and published by Gustav. On Steam it has gathered 1,417 player reviews, 94% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Adventure category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $7. The pairing of developer Gustav with publisher Gustav is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Adventure projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 68,000 to 159,000 units, with the full Boxleiter factor breakdown shown on this page rather than a single black-box figure. Within indielist's catalog of indie games mapped to their studios, publishers, and funding, Cat in the Box can be compared against similar Adventure titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.

Reviews

1,417

Positive

94%

Steam appid

1257410

Engine

Unknown

Players (snapshot)

Unavailable

Sales estimate

v1.0

68K to 159K

units (median: 113K)

≈ $272K to $634K modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)

68K median 159K

+ How is this calculated?

1,417 reviews × NB(80) = 113,360 median units

Factor	Adjustment
base	+50
year_2020	+15
price_$7	-5
positive_94%	+10
genre_Adventure	+10
final NB	80

Heuristic display range: median × [0.6, 1.4]. Boundary protection: NB ∈ [15, 150].

Methodology & limitations

Sales estimates use an additive Boxleiter-derived heuristic against public Steam review counts. They are not authoritative sales data, and the fixed display range is not a statistically validated confidence interval. Actual results may fall outside it, especially for deeply discounted or bundle-heavy titles. Algorithm version v1.0. Read the exact method and validation status.

indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for Cat in the Box at roughly 68,000 to 159,000 copies, with a median around 113,000, derived from its 1,417 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $453K in net revenue after Steam's 30% cut, regional pricing, and refunds. Unlike black-box trackers, the full calculation is shown on this page: a base review-to-sales multiplier is adjusted for release year, launch price, review sentiment, studio size, and genre, and every adjustment is listed so developers, publishers, and investors can audit exactly how the figure was reached. The range itself reflects genuine uncertainty — review-to-sales ratios vary widely between games — so indielist publishes a low, median, and high band rather than a false-precision single number, and treats free-to-play, heavily discounted, and bundle-distributed titles as having wider error margins still.

Price history

6 observed days · window low $3.49

Across 6 observed UTC days from 2026-07-17 to 2026-07-22, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $3.49 to $6.99. The tracked-window low was $3.49 on 2026-07-17.

Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.

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Platforms

windows

Genres

AdventureIndie

Frequently asked questions

How many copies has Cat in the Box sold?: indielist estimates Cat in the Box has sold between 68,016 and 158,704 units (median 113,360), derived from its 1,417 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
Who developed Cat in the Box?: Cat in the Box was developed by Gustav and published by Gustav.
Who published Cat in the Box?: Cat in the Box was published by Gustav, developed by Gustav. See Gustav's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
When was Cat in the Box released?: Cat in the Box was released in 2020.
How many reviews does Cat in the Box have on Steam?: Cat in the Box has 1,417 Steam reviews, of which 94% are positive.
Is Cat in the Box worth playing?: Steam players rate Cat in the Box 94% positive across 1,417 reviews. indielist doesn't score games editorially; it surfaces public review sentiment and a white-box sales estimate so you can judge reception and reach yourself.

Players looking for games like Cat in the Box can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Adventure titles such as Subnautica, Raft, Satisfactory, Human Fall Flat, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Gustav's other releases and Gustav's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Cat in the Box sits among a studio's body of work and how its publisher's portfolio performs. Because indielist maps studios, publishers, games, and funding into one connected graph, the same Cat in the Box page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Adventure game, developers studying how comparable projects were positioned and what they sold, and investors tracing which teams and labels are active in the space. A machine-readable markdown mirror of this page is published at the same path with a .md suffix for AI assistants, and its review, price, and sales-estimate figures are refreshed on a schedule rather than frozen at launch.

Matched from shared Steam tags and primary genre. Review count breaks ties; it is not a personal recommendation score.