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This casual building sandbox, released in 2021, allows players to construct charming island towns. With over 19,964 Steam reviews showing a 95% positive rating, the game is self-published by oskar-st-lberg.
Overview
Townscaper is a 2021 Casual game developed by Oskar Stålberg and published by Raw Fury. On Steam it has gathered 20,019 player reviews, 95% of them positive, which counts as a overwhelmingly positive reception among indie titles in the Casual category. The game is available on mac, windows, and launched at $6. The pairing of developer Oskar Stålberg with publisher Raw Fury 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 661,000 to 1.5 million 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, Townscaper can be compared against similar Casual titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
20,019
Positive
95%
Steam appid
1291340
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.0661K to 1.5M
units (median: 1.1M)
≈ $2.3M to $5.3M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2021 | +15 |
| price_$6 | -5 |
| positive_95% | +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 Townscaper at roughly 661,000 to 1.5 million copies, with a median around 1.1 million, derived from its 20,019 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $3.8M 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
51 observed days · window low $2.02Across 51 observed UTC days from 2026-06-03 to 2026-07-24, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $2.02 to $2.69. The tracked-window low was $2.02 on 2026-06-03.
Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.
Where to buy
Affiliate disclosure- Humble Store -66%$2.04 Buy
- Steam reference -60%$2.39 Buy
- Green Man Gaming -60%$2.39 Buy
- Fanatical -62%$2.57 Buy
- GOG.com$5.99 Buy
Latest tracked store observations (2026-07-24 05:27 UTC), cheapest first. Prices may have changed since observation. Some are affiliate links — we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. Learn more.
Platforms
macwindows
Tags
ExperimentalBuildingRelaxingSandboxCasualCity BuilderShortSingleplayerSimulationIndieStylizedFamily FriendlyAtmosphericCuteColorfulProcedural GenerationMinimalistOpen WorldControllerNature
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Townscaper sold?
- indielist estimates Townscaper has sold between 660,627 and 1,541,463 units (median 1,101,045), derived from its 20,019 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Townscaper?
- Townscaper was developed by Oskar Stålberg and published by Raw Fury.
- Who published Townscaper?
- Townscaper was published by Raw Fury, developed by Oskar Stålberg. See Raw Fury's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was Townscaper released?
- Townscaper was released in 2021.
- How many reviews does Townscaper have on Steam?
- Townscaper has 20,019 Steam reviews, of which 95% are positive.
- Is Townscaper worth playing?
- Steam players rate Townscaper 95% positive across 20,019 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 Townscaper can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Casual titles such as Tiny Glade, My Dream Setup, Dorfromantik, Wobbledogs, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Oskar Stålberg's other releases and Raw Fury's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Townscaper 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 Townscaper 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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- M
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- W
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