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Action indie game Ctrl Alt Ego comes from developer and publisher mindthunk, indicating a self-published release. It launched in 2022 at $19.99 and has 719 Steam reviews listed with a mixed rating signal.
Overview
Ctrl Alt Ego is a 2022 Action game developed by MindThunk and published by MindThunk. On Steam it has gathered 729 player reviews, 92% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $20. The pairing of developer MindThunk with publisher MindThunk 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 26,000 to 61,000 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, Ctrl Alt Ego can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
729
Positive
92%
Steam appid
1571940
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.026K to 61K
units (median: 44K)
≈ $300K to $699K 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_92% | +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 Ctrl Alt Ego at roughly 26,000 to 61,000 copies, with a median around 44,000, derived from its 729 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $499K 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
8 observed days · window low $9.99Across 8 observed UTC days from 2026-07-15 to 2026-07-22, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $9.99 to $19.99. The tracked-window low was $9.99 on 2026-07-15.
Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.
Where to buy
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Platforms
windows
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Ctrl Alt Ego sold?
- indielist estimates Ctrl Alt Ego has sold between 26,244 and 61,236 units (median 43,740), derived from its 729 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Ctrl Alt Ego?
- Ctrl Alt Ego was developed by MindThunk and published by MindThunk.
- Who published Ctrl Alt Ego?
- Ctrl Alt Ego was published by MindThunk, developed by MindThunk. See MindThunk's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was Ctrl Alt Ego released?
- Ctrl Alt Ego was released in 2022.
- How many reviews does Ctrl Alt Ego have on Steam?
- Ctrl Alt Ego has 729 Steam reviews, of which 92% are positive.
- Is Ctrl Alt Ego worth playing?
- Steam players rate Ctrl Alt Ego 92% positive across 729 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 Ctrl Alt Ego can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Action titles such as Rust, Terraria, Phasmophobia, ARK: Survival Evolved, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, MindThunk's other releases and MindThunk's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Ctrl Alt Ego 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 Ctrl Alt Ego 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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