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A casual indie game from developer entity-5433, Chinese Parents focuses on an accessible life-sim angle rather than action systems. Released in 2018 and published by entity-3807, it has 26,751 Steam reviews at 91% positive and a $9.99 initial price.
Overview
Chinese Parents is a 2018 Casual game developed by 墨鱼玩游戏 and published by 墨鱼玩游戏. On Steam it has gathered 23,023 player reviews, 91% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Casual category. The game is available on mac, windows, and launched at $10. The pairing of developer 墨鱼玩游戏 with publisher 墨鱼玩游戏 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 760,000 to 1.8 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, Chinese Parents can be compared against similar Casual titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
23,023
Positive
91%
Steam appid
736190
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.0760K to 1.8M
units (median: 1.3M)
≈ $4.3M to $10.1M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2018 | +15 |
| price_$10 | -5 |
| positive_91% | +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 Chinese Parents at roughly 760,000 to 1.8 million copies, with a median around 1.3 million, derived from its 23,023 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $7.2M 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
29 observed days · window low $5.49Across 29 observed UTC days from 2026-06-24 to 2026-07-22, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $5.49 to $9.99. The tracked-window low was $5.49 on 2026-06-24.
Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.
Where to buy
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Platforms
macwindows
Genres
CasualIndieRPGSimulation
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Chinese Parents sold?
- indielist estimates Chinese Parents has sold between 759,759 and 1,772,771 units (median 1,266,265), derived from its 23,023 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Chinese Parents?
- Chinese Parents was developed by 墨鱼玩游戏 and published by 墨鱼玩游戏.
- Who published Chinese Parents?
- Chinese Parents was published by 墨鱼玩游戏, developed by 墨鱼玩游戏. See 墨鱼玩游戏's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was Chinese Parents released?
- Chinese Parents was released in 2018.
- How many reviews does Chinese Parents have on Steam?
- Chinese Parents has 23,023 Steam reviews, of which 91% are positive.
- Is Chinese Parents worth playing?
- Steam players rate Chinese Parents 91% positive across 23,023 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 Chinese Parents 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, 墨鱼玩游戏's other releases and 墨鱼玩游戏's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Chinese Parents 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 Chinese Parents 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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