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Casual clicker and automation indie game centered on resource management and base-building loops. Released in 2024 by leaping-turtle as both developer and publisher, it has 735 Steam reviews marked mixed at a $4.99 initial price.
Overview
Widget Inc. is a 2024 Casual game developed by Leaping Turtle and published by Leaping Turtle. On Steam it has gathered 751 player reviews, 85% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Casual category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $5. The pairing of developer Leaping Turtle with publisher Leaping Turtle 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 11,000 to 26,000 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, Widget Inc. can be compared against similar Casual titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
751
Positive
85%
Steam appid
3184110
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.011K to 26K
units (median: 19K)
≈ $32K to $75K modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2024 | 0 |
| price_$5 | -20 |
| positive_85% | +10 |
| genre_Casual | -15 |
| final NB | 25 |
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 Widget Inc. at roughly 11,000 to 26,000 copies, with a median around 19,000, derived from its 751 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $54K 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
10 observed days · window low $2.99Across 10 observed UTC days from 2026-06-08 to 2026-07-24, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $2.99 to $4.99. The tracked-window low was $2.99 on 2026-06-08.
Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.
Where to buy
Affiliate disclosure- Steam reference$4.99 Buy
- Green Man Gaming
- Fanatical
- Humble Store
- GOG.com
Latest tracked store observations (2026-07-24 05:38 UTC), cheapest first. Prices may have changed since observation. Some are affiliate links — we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. Learn more.
Platforms
windows
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Widget Inc. sold?
- indielist estimates Widget Inc. has sold between 11,265 and 26,285 units (median 18,775), derived from its 751 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Widget Inc.?
- Widget Inc. was developed by Leaping Turtle and published by Leaping Turtle.
- Who published Widget Inc.?
- Widget Inc. was published by Leaping Turtle, developed by Leaping Turtle. See Leaping Turtle's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was Widget Inc. released?
- Widget Inc. was released in 2024.
- How many reviews does Widget Inc. have on Steam?
- Widget Inc. has 751 Steam reviews, of which 85% are positive.
- Is Widget Inc. worth playing?
- Steam players rate Widget Inc. 85% positive across 751 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 Widget Inc. can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Casual titles such as Nodebuster, Cookie Clicker, shapez, (the) Gnorp Apologue, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Leaping Turtle's other releases and Leaping Turtle's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Widget Inc. 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 Widget Inc. 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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- (
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