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Casual indie game Lazy Witch's Factory comes from developer meltclock-inc, with Phoenixx-inc as publisher. Released in 2026, it has 140 Steam reviews at 94% positive, a very positive signal from a modest player sample, and launched at $15.99.
Overview
Lazy Witch's Factory is a 2026 Casual game developed by MELTCLOCK.Inc and published by Phoenixx Inc.. On Steam it has gathered 172 player reviews, 94% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Casual category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $16. The pairing of developer MELTCLOCK.Inc with publisher Phoenixx Inc. 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 4,000 to 8,000 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, Lazy Witch's Factory can be compared against similar Casual titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
172
Positive
94%
Steam appid
3971650
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.04K to 8K
units (median: 6K)
≈ $33K to $77K modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2026 | -10 |
| price_$16 | 0 |
| positive_94% | +10 |
| genre_Casual | -15 |
| final NB | 35 |
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 Lazy Witch's Factory at roughly 4,000 to 8,000 copies, with a median around 6,000, derived from its 172 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $55K 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
2 observed days · window low $14.39Across 2 observed UTC days from 2026-08-28 to 2026-09-04, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $14.39 to $15.99. The tracked-window low was $14.39 on 2026-08-28.
Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.
Where to buy
Affiliate disclosure- Steam reference$15.99 Buy
- Green Man Gaming
- Fanatical
- Humble Store
- GOG.com
Latest tracked store observations (2026-09-04 07:30 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
windows
Genres
CasualIndieSimulationStrategyEarly Access
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Lazy Witch's Factory sold?
- indielist estimates Lazy Witch's Factory has sold between 3,612 and 8,428 units (median 6,020), derived from its 172 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Lazy Witch's Factory?
- Lazy Witch's Factory was developed by MELTCLOCK.Inc and published by Phoenixx Inc..
- Who published Lazy Witch's Factory?
- Lazy Witch's Factory was published by Phoenixx Inc., developed by MELTCLOCK.Inc. See Phoenixx Inc.'s full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was Lazy Witch's Factory released?
- Lazy Witch's Factory was released in 2026.
- How many reviews does Lazy Witch's Factory have on Steam?
- Lazy Witch's Factory has 172 Steam reviews, of which 94% are positive.
- Is Lazy Witch's Factory worth playing?
- Steam players rate Lazy Witch's Factory 94% positive across 172 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 Lazy Witch's Factory 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, MELTCLOCK.Inc's other releases and Phoenixx Inc.'s wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Lazy Witch's Factory 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 Lazy Witch's Factory 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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