Cats are Liquid - A Light in the Shadows
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Adventure indie game Cats are Liquid - A Light in the Shadows comes from last-quarter-studios, which also published it. Released in 2016, it has 643 Steam reviews listed as mixed with 0% positive, and its initial price was $0.99.
Overview
Cats are Liquid - A Light in the Shadows is a 2016 Adventure game developed by Last Quarter Studios and published by Last Quarter Studios. On Steam it has gathered 643 player reviews to date. The game is available on linux, mac, windows, and launched at $1. The pairing of developer Last Quarter Studios with publisher Last Quarter Studios 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 27,000 to 63,000 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, Cats are Liquid - A Light in the Shadows can be compared against similar Adventure titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
643
Positive
Unknown
Steam appid
498330
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.027K to 63K
units (median: 45K)
≈ $15K to $36K modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2016 | +30 |
| price_$1 | -20 |
| positive_80% | 0 |
| genre_Adventure | +10 |
| final NB | 70 |
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 Cats are Liquid - A Light in the Shadows at roughly 27,000 to 63,000 copies, with a median around 45,000, derived from its 643 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $25K 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
No tracked store price observations are available for this game in the last 90 days.
Where to buy
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Platforms
linuxmacwindows
Genres
AdventureIndie
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Cats are Liquid - A Light in the Shadows sold?
- indielist estimates Cats are Liquid - A Light in the Shadows has sold between 27,006 and 63,014 units (median 45,010), derived from its 643 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Cats are Liquid - A Light in the Shadows?
- Cats are Liquid - A Light in the Shadows was developed by Last Quarter Studios and published by Last Quarter Studios.
- Who published Cats are Liquid - A Light in the Shadows?
- Cats are Liquid - A Light in the Shadows was published by Last Quarter Studios, developed by Last Quarter Studios. See Last Quarter Studios's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was Cats are Liquid - A Light in the Shadows released?
- Cats are Liquid - A Light in the Shadows was released in 2016.
- How many reviews does Cats are Liquid - A Light in the Shadows have on Steam?
- Cats are Liquid - A Light in the Shadows has 643 Steam reviews.
Ecosystem
Players looking for games like Cats are Liquid - A Light in the Shadows 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, Last Quarter Studios's other releases and Last Quarter Studios's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Cats are Liquid - A Light in the Shadows 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 Cats are Liquid - A Light in the Shadows 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.
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