Game Dev Studio
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Casual indie game Game Dev Studio sits in the budget tier at $9.99. Released in 2018 by developer and publisher Explosive Squat Games, it has 682 Steam reviews with 85% positive, making it a modestly reviewed but well-liked option for players browsing casual PC indies.
Overview
Game Dev Studio is a 2018 Casual game developed by Explosive Squat Games and published by Explosive Squat Games. On Steam it has gathered 534 player reviews, 85% of them positive, which counts as a mostly positive reception among indie titles in the Casual category. The game is available on linux, windows, and launched at $10. The pairing of developer Explosive Squat Games with publisher Explosive Squat 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 14,000 to 34,000 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, Game Dev Studio can be compared against similar Casual titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
534
Positive
85%
Steam appid
773580
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.014K to 34K
units (median: 24K)
≈ $82K to $192K 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_85% | 0 |
| genre_Casual | -15 |
| final NB | 45 |
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 Game Dev Studio at roughly 14,000 to 34,000 copies, with a median around 24,000, derived from its 534 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $137K 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 $1.49Across 12 observed UTC days from 2026-07-17 to 2026-09-02, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $1.49 to $9.99. The tracked-window low was $1.49 on 2026-07-17.
Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.
Where to buy
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Platforms
linuxwindows
Genres
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Game Dev Studio sold?
- indielist estimates Game Dev Studio has sold between 14,418 and 33,642 units (median 24,030), derived from its 534 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Game Dev Studio?
- Game Dev Studio was developed by Explosive Squat Games and published by Explosive Squat Games.
- Who published Game Dev Studio?
- Game Dev Studio was published by Explosive Squat Games, developed by Explosive Squat Games. See Explosive Squat Games's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was Game Dev Studio released?
- Game Dev Studio was released in 2018.
- How many reviews does Game Dev Studio have on Steam?
- Game Dev Studio has 534 Steam reviews, of which 85% are positive.
- Is Game Dev Studio worth playing?
- Steam players rate Game Dev Studio 85% positive across 534 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 Game Dev Studio 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, Explosive Squat Games's other releases and Explosive Squat Games's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Game Dev Studio 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 Game Dev Studio 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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