How many copies has Cookie Clicker sold?

indielist estimates Cookie Clicker has sold between 2,085,024 and 4,865,056 units (median 3,475,040), derived from its 86,876 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.

Who developed Cookie Clicker?

Cookie Clicker was developed by Orteil and published by Playsaurus.

Who published Cookie Clicker?

Cookie Clicker was published by Playsaurus, developed by Orteil. See Playsaurus's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.

When was Cookie Clicker released?

Cookie Clicker was released in 2021.

How many reviews does Cookie Clicker have on Steam?

Cookie Clicker has 86,876 Steam reviews, of which 96% are positive.

Is Cookie Clicker worth playing?

Steam players rate Cookie Clicker 96% positive across 86,876 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.

Cookie Clicker

Sep 1, 2021 Casual $4.99

Developer Orteil Publisher Playsaurus

Profile updated May 2026

Casual simulation game Cookie Clicker, released in 2021, offers a strategy experience with 85,240 Steam reviews. The developer is unknown, and publisher information is not yet imported.

Cookie Clicker is a 2021 Casual game developed by Orteil and published by Playsaurus. On Steam it has gathered 86,876 player reviews, 96% 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 $5. The pairing of developer Orteil with publisher Playsaurus 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 2.1 million to 4.9 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, Cookie Clicker can be compared against similar Casual titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.

Reviews

86,876

Positive

96%

Steam appid

1454400

Engine

Unknown

Players (snapshot)

10,947

Historical snapshot · 2026-07-05 19:55 UTC

Sales estimate

v1.0

2.1M to 4.9M

units (median: 3.5M)

≈ $5.9M to $13.9M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)

2.1M median 4.9M

+ How is this calculated?

86,876 reviews × NB(40) = 3,475,040 median units

Factor	Adjustment
base	+50
year_2021	+15
price_$5	-20
positive_96%	+10
genre_Casual	-15
final NB	40

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 Cookie Clicker at roughly 2.1 million to 4.9 million copies, with a median around 3.5 million, derived from its 86,876 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $9.9M 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

54 observed days · window low $2.49

Across 54 observed UTC days from 2026-05-31 to 2026-07-24, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $2.49 to $4.99. The tracked-window low was $2.49 on 2026-06-26.

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

Where to buy

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Platforms

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Frequently asked questions

How many copies has Cookie Clicker sold?: indielist estimates Cookie Clicker has sold between 2,085,024 and 4,865,056 units (median 3,475,040), derived from its 86,876 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
Who developed Cookie Clicker?: Cookie Clicker was developed by Orteil and published by Playsaurus.
Who published Cookie Clicker?: Cookie Clicker was published by Playsaurus, developed by Orteil. See Playsaurus's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
When was Cookie Clicker released?: Cookie Clicker was released in 2021.
How many reviews does Cookie Clicker have on Steam?: Cookie Clicker has 86,876 Steam reviews, of which 96% are positive.
Is Cookie Clicker worth playing?: Steam players rate Cookie Clicker 96% positive across 86,876 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 Cookie Clicker can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Casual titles such as (the) Gnorp Apologue, Game Dev Tycoon, Nodebuster, Leaf Blower Revolution - Idle Game, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Orteil's other releases and Playsaurus's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Cookie Clicker 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 Cookie Clicker 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.