How many copies has Pictopix sold?

indielist estimates Pictopix has sold between 58,380 and 136,220 units (median 97,300), derived from its 1,390 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.

Who developed Pictopix?

Pictopix was developed by Tomlab Games and published by Tomlab Games.

Who published Pictopix?

Pictopix was published by Tomlab Games, developed by Tomlab Games. See Tomlab Games's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.

How many reviews does Pictopix have on Steam?

Pictopix has 1,390 Steam reviews, of which 97% are positive.

Is Pictopix worth playing?

Steam players rate Pictopix 97% positive across 1,390 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.

Pictopix

Jan 5, 2017 Casual $6.99

Developer Tomlab Games Publisher Tomlab Games

Profile updated Jun 2026

Casual indie game Pictopix comes from Tomlab Games, which handled both development and publishing. Launched in 2017, it has 1,376 Steam reviews marked mixed at 0% positive, with an initial budget price of $6.99.

Pictopix is a 2017 Casual game developed by Tomlab Games and published by Tomlab Games. On Steam it has gathered 1,390 player reviews, 97% of them positive, which counts as a overwhelmingly positive reception among indie titles in the Casual category. The game is available on linux, mac, windows, and launched at $7. The pairing of developer Tomlab Games with publisher Tomlab Games 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 58,000 to 136,000 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, Pictopix can be compared against similar Casual titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.

Reviews

1,390

Positive

97%

Steam appid

568320

Engine

Unknown

Players (snapshot)

Unavailable

Sales estimate

v1.0

58K to 136K

units (median: 97K)

≈ $233K to $544K modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)

58K median 136K

+ How is this calculated?

1,390 reviews × NB(70) = 97,300 median units

Factor	Adjustment
base	+50
year_2017	+30
price_$7	-5
positive_97%	+10
genre_Casual	-15
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 Pictopix at roughly 58,000 to 136,000 copies, with a median around 97,000, derived from its 1,390 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $388K 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 $6.99

Across 8 observed UTC days from 2026-07-15 to 2026-07-22, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $6.99 to $6.99. The tracked-window low was $6.99 on 2026-07-15.

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

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Platforms

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Genres

CasualIndieStrategy

Frequently asked questions

How many copies has Pictopix sold?: indielist estimates Pictopix has sold between 58,380 and 136,220 units (median 97,300), derived from its 1,390 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
Who developed Pictopix?: Pictopix was developed by Tomlab Games and published by Tomlab Games.
Who published Pictopix?: Pictopix was published by Tomlab Games, developed by Tomlab Games. See Tomlab Games's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
When was Pictopix released?: Pictopix was released in 2017.
How many reviews does Pictopix have on Steam?: Pictopix has 1,390 Steam reviews, of which 97% are positive.
Is Pictopix worth playing?: Steam players rate Pictopix 97% positive across 1,390 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 Pictopix 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, Tomlab Games's other releases and Tomlab Games's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Pictopix 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 Pictopix 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.

Matched from shared Steam tags and primary genre. Review count breaks ties; it is not a personal recommendation score.