How many copies has Animal Shelter sold?

indielist estimates Animal Shelter has sold between 151,284 and 352,996 units (median 252,140), derived from its 3,602 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.

Who developed Animal Shelter?

Animal Shelter was developed by Games Incubator and published by Games Incubator.

Who published Animal Shelter?

Animal Shelter was published by Games Incubator, developed by Games Incubator. See Games Incubator's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.

When was Animal Shelter released?

Animal Shelter was released in 2022.

How many reviews does Animal Shelter have on Steam?

Animal Shelter has 3,602 Steam reviews, of which 88% are positive.

Is Animal Shelter worth playing?

Steam players rate Animal Shelter 88% positive across 3,602 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.

Animal Shelter

Mar 23, 2022 Adventure $19.99

Developer Games Incubator Publisher Games Incubator

Profile updated Jun 2026

Adventure indie game built around animal shelter care, with dog and cat life sim elements, casual tasks, and an education tag. Released in 2022 by Games Incubator and self-published, it has 4,065 Steam reviews at 88% positive and launched at $19.99.

Animal Shelter is a 2022 Adventure game developed by Games Incubator and published by Games Incubator. On Steam it has gathered 3,602 player reviews, 88% 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 $20. The pairing of developer Games Incubator with publisher Games Incubator 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 151,000 to 353,000 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, Animal Shelter can be compared against similar Adventure titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.

Reviews

3,602

Positive

88%

Steam appid

1239320

Engine

Unknown

Players (snapshot)

Unavailable

Sales estimate

v1.0

151K to 353K

units (median: 252K)

≈ $1.7M to $4.0M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)

151K median 353K

+ How is this calculated?

3,602 reviews × NB(70) = 252,140 median units

Factor	Adjustment
base	+50
year_2022	0
price_$20	0
positive_88%	+10
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 Animal Shelter at roughly 151,000 to 353,000 copies, with a median around 252,000, derived from its 3,602 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $2.9M 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

16 observed days · window low $2.96

Across 16 observed UTC days from 2026-06-04 to 2026-07-22, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $2.96 to $19.99. The tracked-window low was $2.96 on 2026-06-06.

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

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Platforms

windows

Frequently asked questions

How many copies has Animal Shelter sold?: indielist estimates Animal Shelter has sold between 151,284 and 352,996 units (median 252,140), derived from its 3,602 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
Who developed Animal Shelter?: Animal Shelter was developed by Games Incubator and published by Games Incubator.
Who published Animal Shelter?: Animal Shelter was published by Games Incubator, developed by Games Incubator. See Games Incubator's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
When was Animal Shelter released?: Animal Shelter was released in 2022.
How many reviews does Animal Shelter have on Steam?: Animal Shelter has 3,602 Steam reviews, of which 88% are positive.
Is Animal Shelter worth playing?: Steam players rate Animal Shelter 88% positive across 3,602 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 Animal Shelter can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Adventure titles such as PC Building Simulator, House Flipper, Tank Mechanic Simulator, The Coin Game, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Games Incubator's other releases and Games Incubator's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Animal Shelter 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 Animal Shelter 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.