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Turbo Pug

Nov 9, 2015 Casual $1.99
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Casual indie game Turbo Pug launched in 2015 from Space Cat Studios, with publishing by Back To Basics Gaming. It has 3,366 Steam reviews at 90% positive, a very positive signal for a budget $1.99 release.

Overview

Turbo Pug is a 2015 Casual game developed by Space Cat Studios and published by Back To Basics Gaming. On Steam it has gathered 2,234 player reviews, 90% 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 $2. The pairing of developer Space Cat Studios with publisher Back To Basics Gaming 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 74,000 to 172,000 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, Turbo Pug can be compared against similar Casual titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.

Reviews

2,234

Positive

90%

Steam appid

418070

Engine

Unknown

Players (snapshot)

Unavailable

Sales estimate

v1.0

74K to 172K

units (median: 123K)

≈ $84K to $196K modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)

74K median 172K
+ How is this calculated?
2,234 reviews × NB(55) = 122,870 median units
Factor Adjustment
base +50
year_2015 +30
price_$2 -20
positive_90% +10
genre_Casual -15
final NB 55

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 Turbo Pug at roughly 74,000 to 172,000 copies, with a median around 123,000, derived from its 2,234 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $140K 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

6 observed days · window low $1.99

Across 6 observed UTC days from 2026-07-17 to 2026-07-22, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $1.99 to $1.99. The tracked-window low was $1.99 on 2026-07-17.

$1 $2 $3 07-1707-1807-1907-2007-2107-22 2026-07-17: $1.99 2026-07-18: $1.99 2026-07-19: $1.99 2026-07-20: $1.99 2026-07-21: $1.99 2026-07-22: $1.99 2026-07-17: $1.99 (tracked-window low) 2026-07-18: $1.99 (tracked-window low) 2026-07-19: $1.99 (tracked-window low) 2026-07-20: $1.99 (tracked-window low) 2026-07-21: $1.99 (tracked-window low) 2026-07-22: $1.99 (tracked-window low) Tracked-window low: $1.99 on 2026-07-17

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

Where to buy

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Platforms

windows

Genres

CasualIndie

Frequently asked questions

How many copies has Turbo Pug sold?
indielist estimates Turbo Pug has sold between 73,722 and 172,018 units (median 122,870), derived from its 2,234 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
Who developed Turbo Pug?
Turbo Pug was developed by Space Cat Studios and published by Back To Basics Gaming.
Who published Turbo Pug?
Turbo Pug was published by Back To Basics Gaming, developed by Space Cat Studios. See Back To Basics Gaming's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
When was Turbo Pug released?
Turbo Pug was released in 2015.
How many reviews does Turbo Pug have on Steam?
Turbo Pug has 2,234 Steam reviews, of which 90% are positive.
Is Turbo Pug worth playing?
Steam players rate Turbo Pug 90% positive across 2,234 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 Turbo Pug can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Casual titles such as Garry's Mod, Wallpaper Engine, Factorio, Balatro, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Space Cat Studios's other releases and Back To Basics Gaming's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Turbo Pug 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 Turbo Pug 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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