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NEKOPARA Vol. 1 is a casual indie game released in 2014. It has garnered 23,247 reviews on Steam, indicating significant player engagement. The developer and publisher information is not yet imported.
Overview
NEKOPARA Vol. 1 is a 2014 Casual game developed by NEKO WORKs and published by Sekai Project. On Steam it has gathered 23,350 player reviews, 95% of them positive, which counts as a overwhelmingly positive reception among indie titles in the Casual category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $10. The pairing of developer NEKO WORKs with publisher Sekai Project is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Casual projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 981,000 to 2.3 million 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, NEKOPARA Vol. 1 can be compared against similar Casual titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
23,350
Positive
95%
Steam appid
333600
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
36
Historical snapshot ·
Sales estimate
v1.0981K to 2.3M
units (median: 1.6M)
≈ $5.6M to $13.1M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2014 | +30 |
| price_$10 | -5 |
| positive_95% | +10 |
| genre_Casual | -15 |
| 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 NEKOPARA Vol. 1 at roughly 981,000 to 2.3 million copies, with a median around 1.6 million, derived from its 23,350 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $9.3M 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
53 observed days · window low $3.99Across 53 observed UTC days from 2026-05-31 to 2026-07-22, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $3.99 to $9.99. The tracked-window low was $3.99 on 2026-06-26.
Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.
Where to buy
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Platforms
windows
Tags
HentaiAnimeNuditySexual ContentVisual NovelMatureCuteDating SimSingleplayerStory RichRomanceCasualNSFWIndieCatsGreat SoundtrackFunnyLinearAtmosphericSouls-like
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has NEKOPARA Vol. 1 sold?
- indielist estimates NEKOPARA Vol. 1 has sold between 980,700 and 2,288,300 units (median 1,634,500), derived from its 23,350 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed NEKOPARA Vol. 1?
- NEKOPARA Vol. 1 was developed by NEKO WORKs and published by Sekai Project.
- Who published NEKOPARA Vol. 1?
- NEKOPARA Vol. 1 was published by Sekai Project, developed by NEKO WORKs. See Sekai Project's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was NEKOPARA Vol. 1 released?
- NEKOPARA Vol. 1 was released in 2014.
- How many reviews does NEKOPARA Vol. 1 have on Steam?
- NEKOPARA Vol. 1 has 23,350 Steam reviews, of which 95% are positive.
- Is NEKOPARA Vol. 1 worth playing?
- Steam players rate NEKOPARA Vol. 1 95% positive across 23,350 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.
Ecosystem
Players looking for games like NEKOPARA Vol. 1 can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Casual titles such as NEKOPARA Vol. 3, NEKOPARA Vol. 2, Blush Blush, Dream Daddy: A Dad Dating Simulator, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, NEKO WORKs's other releases and Sekai Project's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where NEKOPARA Vol. 1 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 NEKOPARA Vol. 1 page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Casual 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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