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This singleplayer, first-person survival horror game puts players in an open world facing a terrifying spider-train hybrid. Released in 2022 by developer and publisher Two Star Games, Choo-Choo Charles has garnered 17,124 Steam reviews with a 91% positive rating.
Overview
Choo-Choo Charles is a 2022 Action game developed by Two Star Games and published by Two Star Games. On Steam it has gathered 15,827 player reviews, 91% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on mac, windows, and launched at $20. The pairing of developer Two Star Games with publisher Two Star Games is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Action projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 570,000 to 1.3 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, Choo-Choo Charles can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
15,827
Positive
91%
Steam appid
1766740
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.0570K to 1.3M
units (median: 950K)
≈ $6.5M to $15.2M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2022 | 0 |
| price_$20 | 0 |
| positive_91% | +10 |
| final NB | 60 |
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 Choo-Choo Charles at roughly 570,000 to 1.3 million copies, with a median around 950,000, derived from its 15,827 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $10.8M 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
51 observed days · window low $3.99Across 51 observed UTC days from 2026-06-03 to 2026-07-28, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $3.99 to $19.99. 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
macwindows
Tags
Survival HorrorHorrorOpen WorldFirst-PersonSingleplayerTrainsShooterDark3DAction-AdventureFPSAdventureAtmosphericIndiePsychological HorrorActionChoices MatterThrillerHand-drawnCo-op
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Choo-Choo Charles sold?
- indielist estimates Choo-Choo Charles has sold between 569,772 and 1,329,468 units (median 949,620), derived from its 15,827 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Choo-Choo Charles?
- Choo-Choo Charles was developed by Two Star Games and published by Two Star Games.
- Who published Choo-Choo Charles?
- Choo-Choo Charles was published by Two Star Games, developed by Two Star Games. See Two Star Games's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was Choo-Choo Charles released?
- Choo-Choo Charles was released in 2022.
- How many reviews does Choo-Choo Charles have on Steam?
- Choo-Choo Charles has 15,827 Steam reviews, of which 91% are positive.
- Is Choo-Choo Charles worth playing?
- Steam players rate Choo-Choo Charles 91% positive across 15,827 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 Choo-Choo Charles can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Action titles such as Poppy Playtime, Slender: The Arrival, Escape the Backrooms, Five Nights at Freddy's: Security Breach, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Two Star Games's other releases and Two Star Games's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Choo-Choo Charles 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 Choo-Choo Charles page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Action 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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