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Casual indie game Drop and Grow targets players looking for a low-cost pick-up-and-play release. Launched in 2026 by developer and publisher Shane Staller Games, it has 128 Steam reviews with 92% positive sentiment and an initial price of $6.99.
Overview
Drop and Grow is a 2026 Casual game developed by Shane Staller Games and published by Shane Staller Games. On Steam it has gathered 139 player reviews, 92% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Casual category. The game is available on linux, mac, windows, and launched at $7. The pairing of developer Shane Staller Games with publisher Shane Staller 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 3,000 to 6,000 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, Drop and Grow can be compared against similar Casual titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
139
Positive
92%
Steam appid
4268890
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.03K to 6K
units (median: 4K)
≈ $10K to $23K modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2026 | -10 |
| price_$7 | -5 |
| positive_92% | +10 |
| genre_Casual | -15 |
| final NB | 30 |
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 Drop and Grow at roughly 3,000 to 6,000 copies, with a median around 4,000, derived from its 139 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $17K 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
12 observed days · window low $6.99Across 12 observed UTC days from 2026-07-15 to 2026-09-07, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $6.99 to $6.99. The tracked-window low was $6.99 on 2026-07-15.
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 (2026-09-07 06:44 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
linuxmacwindows
Genres
CasualIndieSimulation
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Drop and Grow sold?
- indielist estimates Drop and Grow has sold between 2,502 and 5,838 units (median 4,170), derived from its 139 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Drop and Grow?
- Drop and Grow was developed by Shane Staller Games and published by Shane Staller Games.
- Who published Drop and Grow?
- Drop and Grow was published by Shane Staller Games, developed by Shane Staller Games. See Shane Staller Games's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was Drop and Grow released?
- Drop and Grow was released in 2026.
- How many reviews does Drop and Grow have on Steam?
- Drop and Grow has 139 Steam reviews, of which 92% are positive.
- Is Drop and Grow worth playing?
- Steam players rate Drop and Grow 92% positive across 139 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 Drop and Grow 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, Shane Staller Games's other releases and Shane Staller Games's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Drop and Grow 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 Drop and Grow 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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