How many copies has Calm Down, Stalin sold?

indielist estimates Calm Down, Stalin has sold between 34,617 and 80,773 units (median 57,695), derived from its 1,049 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.

Who developed Calm Down, Stalin?

Calm Down, Stalin was developed by Cartboard Games and published by Cartboard Games.

Who published Calm Down, Stalin?

Calm Down, Stalin was published by Cartboard Games, developed by Cartboard Games. See Cartboard Games's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.

When was Calm Down, Stalin released?

Calm Down, Stalin was released in 2016.

How many reviews does Calm Down, Stalin have on Steam?

Calm Down, Stalin has 1,049 Steam reviews, of which 90% are positive.

Is Calm Down, Stalin worth playing?

Steam players rate Calm Down, Stalin 90% positive across 1,049 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.

Calm Down, Stalin

Sep 8, 2016 Casual $3.99

Developer Cartboard Games Publisher Cartboard Games

Profile updated Jul 2026

A casual indie game from Cartboard Games, Calm Down, Stalin launched in 2016 with a budget $3.99 price. It has 1,043 Steam reviews listed as mixed, with Cartboard Games credited as both developer and publisher.

Calm Down, Stalin is a 2016 Casual game developed by Cartboard Games and published by Cartboard Games. On Steam it has gathered 1,049 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 $4. The pairing of developer Cartboard Games with publisher Cartboard 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 35,000 to 81,000 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, Calm Down, Stalin can be compared against similar Casual titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.

Reviews

1,049

Positive

90%

Steam appid

502940

Engine

Unknown

Players (snapshot)

Unavailable

Sales estimate

v1.0

35K to 81K

units (median: 58K)

≈ $79K to $184K modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)

35K median 81K

+ How is this calculated?

1,049 reviews × NB(55) = 57,695 median units

Factor	Adjustment
base	+50
year_2016	+30
price_$4	-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 Calm Down, Stalin at roughly 35,000 to 81,000 copies, with a median around 58,000, derived from its 1,049 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $131K 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

5 observed days · window low $3.99

Across 5 observed UTC days from 2026-08-04 to 2026-09-01, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $3.99 to $3.99. The tracked-window low was $3.99 on 2026-08-04.

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

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Platforms

windows

Genres

CasualIndie

Frequently asked questions

How many copies has Calm Down, Stalin sold?: indielist estimates Calm Down, Stalin has sold between 34,617 and 80,773 units (median 57,695), derived from its 1,049 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
Who developed Calm Down, Stalin?: Calm Down, Stalin was developed by Cartboard Games and published by Cartboard Games.
Who published Calm Down, Stalin?: Calm Down, Stalin was published by Cartboard Games, developed by Cartboard Games. See Cartboard Games's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
When was Calm Down, Stalin released?: Calm Down, Stalin was released in 2016.
How many reviews does Calm Down, Stalin have on Steam?: Calm Down, Stalin has 1,049 Steam reviews, of which 90% are positive.
Is Calm Down, Stalin worth playing?: Steam players rate Calm Down, Stalin 90% positive across 1,049 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 Calm Down, Stalin 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, Cartboard Games's other releases and Cartboard Games's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Calm Down, Stalin 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 Calm Down, Stalin 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.