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WHAT THE CAR?

Sep 9, 2024 Action $19.99
Developer Triband Publisher Triband
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This 2024 action-adventure game features casual and racing elements. With 772 Steam reviews, it offers a unique gameplay experience. The developer is currently unknown.

Overview

WHAT THE CAR? is a 2024 Action game developed by Triband and published by Triband. On Steam it has gathered 800 player reviews, 85% 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 Triband with publisher Triband 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 29,000 to 67,000 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, WHAT THE CAR? can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.

Reviews

800

Positive

85%

Steam appid

2727650

Engine

Unknown

Players (snapshot)

7

Historical snapshot ·

Sales estimate

v1.0

29K to 67K

units (median: 48K)

≈ $329K to $767K modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)

29K median 67K
+ How is this calculated?
800 reviews × NB(60) = 48,000 median units
Factor Adjustment
base +50
year_2024 0
price_$20 0
positive_85% +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 WHAT THE CAR? at roughly 29,000 to 67,000 copies, with a median around 48,000, derived from its 800 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $548K 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

18 observed days · window low $19.99

Across 18 observed UTC days from 2026-05-31 to 2026-07-23, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $19.99 to $19.99. The tracked-window low was $19.99 on 2026-05-31.

$17 $19 $22 05-3106-0306-0707-1607-2007-23 2026-05-31: $19.99 2026-06-01: $19.99 2026-06-02: $19.99 2026-06-03: $19.99 2026-06-04: $19.99 2026-06-05: $19.99 2026-06-06: $19.99 2026-06-07: $19.99 2026-06-08: $19.99 2026-07-15: $19.99 2026-07-16: $19.99 2026-07-17: $19.99 2026-07-18: $19.99 2026-07-19: $19.99 2026-07-20: $19.99 2026-07-21: $19.99 2026-07-22: $19.99 2026-07-23: $19.99 2026-05-31: $19.99 (tracked-window low) 2026-06-01: $19.99 (tracked-window low) 2026-06-02: $19.99 (tracked-window low) 2026-06-03: $19.99 (tracked-window low) 2026-06-04: $19.99 (tracked-window low) 2026-06-05: $19.99 (tracked-window low) 2026-06-06: $19.99 (tracked-window low) 2026-06-07: $19.99 (tracked-window low) 2026-06-08: $19.99 (tracked-window low) 2026-07-15: $19.99 (tracked-window low) 2026-07-16: $19.99 (tracked-window low) 2026-07-17: $19.99 (tracked-window low) 2026-07-18: $19.99 (tracked-window low) 2026-07-19: $19.99 (tracked-window low) 2026-07-20: $19.99 (tracked-window low) 2026-07-21: $19.99 (tracked-window low) 2026-07-22: $19.99 (tracked-window low) 2026-07-23: $19.99 (tracked-window low) Tracked-window low: $19.99 on 2026-05-31

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

FunnyIndiePhysicsComedyAction-AdventureRacingCuteAdventure3DColorfulParodySingleplayerMemesLevel EditorFamily FriendlyStylized3D PlatformerControllerExperimentalAction

Frequently asked questions

How many copies has WHAT THE CAR? sold?
indielist estimates WHAT THE CAR? has sold between 28,800 and 67,200 units (median 48,000), derived from its 800 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
Who developed WHAT THE CAR??
WHAT THE CAR? was developed by Triband and published by Triband.
Who published WHAT THE CAR??
WHAT THE CAR? was published by Triband, developed by Triband. See Triband's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
When was WHAT THE CAR? released?
WHAT THE CAR? was released in 2024.
How many reviews does WHAT THE CAR? have on Steam?
WHAT THE CAR? has 800 Steam reviews, of which 85% are positive.
Is WHAT THE CAR? worth playing?
Steam players rate WHAT THE CAR? 85% positive across 800 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 WHAT THE CAR? can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Action titles such as Totally Accurate Battle Simulator, Untitled Goose Game, Little Kitty, Big City, Trombone Champ, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Triband's other releases and Triband's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where WHAT THE CAR? 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 WHAT THE CAR? 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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