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Surreal action indie game Critters for Sale blends visual novel structure with psychedelic psychological horror and gore. Released in 2021 by developer/publisher sonoshee, it has 1,781 Steam reviews at 94% positive and a $9.99 initial price.
Overview
Critters for Sale is a 2021 Action game developed by Sonoshee and published by Sonoshee. On Steam it has gathered 1,762 player reviews, 94% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on linux, windows, and launched at $10. The pairing of developer Sonoshee with publisher Sonoshee 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 74,000 to 173,000 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, Critters for Sale can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
1,762
Positive
94%
Steam appid
1078420
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.074K to 173K
units (median: 123K)
≈ $422K to $985K modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2021 | +15 |
| price_$10 | -5 |
| positive_94% | +10 |
| final NB | 70 |
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 Critters for Sale at roughly 74,000 to 173,000 copies, with a median around 123,000, derived from its 1,762 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $704K 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
14 observed days · window low $9.99Across 14 observed UTC days from 2026-06-03 to 2026-07-22, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $9.99 to $9.99. The tracked-window low was $9.99 on 2026-06-03.
Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.
Where to buy
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- Green Man Gaming
- Fanatical
- Humble Store
- GOG.com
Latest tracked store observations (2026-07-22 05:48 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
linuxwindows
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Critters for Sale sold?
- indielist estimates Critters for Sale has sold between 74,004 and 172,676 units (median 123,340), derived from its 1,762 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Critters for Sale?
- Critters for Sale was developed by Sonoshee and published by Sonoshee.
- Who published Critters for Sale?
- Critters for Sale was published by Sonoshee, developed by Sonoshee. See Sonoshee's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was Critters for Sale released?
- Critters for Sale was released in 2021.
- How many reviews does Critters for Sale have on Steam?
- Critters for Sale has 1,762 Steam reviews, of which 94% are positive.
- Is Critters for Sale worth playing?
- Steam players rate Critters for Sale 94% positive across 1,762 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 Critters for Sale can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Action titles such as Doki Doki Literature Club Plus!, Slay the Princess — The Pristine Cut, Outlast 2, Amnesia: The Dark Descent, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Sonoshee's other releases and Sonoshee's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Critters for Sale 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 Critters for Sale 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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