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Action indie game Counter Terrorist Agency launched in 2019 from developer play2chill and publisher games-operators. It has 479 Steam reviews with a mixed rating and launched at an initial price of $19.99.
Overview
Counter Terrorist Agency is a 2019 Action game developed by Play2Chill and published by Games Operators. On Steam it has gathered 480 player reviews, 45% of them positive, which counts as a mixed reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on mac, windows, and launched at $20. The pairing of developer Play2Chill with publisher Games Operators is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Action projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 16,000 to 37,000 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, Counter Terrorist Agency can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
480
Positive
45%
Steam appid
936490
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.016K to 37K
units (median: 26K)
≈ $181K to $422K modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2019 | +15 |
| price_$20 | 0 |
| positive_45% | -10 |
| 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 Counter Terrorist Agency at roughly 16,000 to 37,000 copies, with a median around 26,000, derived from its 480 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $301K 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 $3.28Across 5 observed UTC days from 2026-08-05 to 2026-09-02, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $3.28 to $17.50. The tracked-window low was $3.28 on 2026-08-19.
Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.
Where to buy
Affiliate disclosure- Fanatical -10%$17.50 Buy
- Steam reference$19.99 Buy
- Humble Store$19.99 Buy
- Green Man Gaming
- GOG.com
Latest tracked store observations (2026-09-02 07:03 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
Genres
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Counter Terrorist Agency sold?
- indielist estimates Counter Terrorist Agency has sold between 15,840 and 36,960 units (median 26,400), derived from its 480 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Counter Terrorist Agency?
- Counter Terrorist Agency was developed by Play2Chill and published by Games Operators.
- Who published Counter Terrorist Agency?
- Counter Terrorist Agency was published by Games Operators, developed by Play2Chill. See Games Operators's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was Counter Terrorist Agency released?
- Counter Terrorist Agency was released in 2019.
- How many reviews does Counter Terrorist Agency have on Steam?
- Counter Terrorist Agency has 480 Steam reviews, of which 45% are positive.
- Is Counter Terrorist Agency worth playing?
- Steam players rate Counter Terrorist Agency 45% positive across 480 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 Counter Terrorist Agency can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Action titles such as Terraria, Rust, Phasmophobia, The Forest, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Play2Chill's other releases and Games Operators's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Counter Terrorist Agency 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 Counter Terrorist Agency page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Action 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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