Passpartout: The Starving Artist
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Casual indie game about making art under pressure, Passpartout: The Starving Artist launched in 2017 from Flamebait Games. It is self-published by the same studio, priced at $9.99, with 6,949 Steam reviews and an 89% positive Very Positive rating.
Overview
Passpartout: The Starving Artist is a 2017 Casual game developed by Flamebait Games and published by Flamebait Games. On Steam it has gathered 6,232 player reviews, 88% 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 $10. The pairing of developer Flamebait Games with publisher Flamebait 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 262,000 to 611,000 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, Passpartout: The Starving Artist can be compared against similar Casual titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
6,232
Positive
88%
Steam appid
582550
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.0262K to 611K
units (median: 436K)
≈ $1.5M to $3.5M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2017 | +30 |
| price_$10 | -5 |
| positive_88% | +10 |
| genre_Casual | -15 |
| 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 Passpartout: The Starving Artist at roughly 262,000 to 611,000 copies, with a median around 436,000, derived from its 6,232 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $2.5M 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 2026-07-15 to 2026-09-03, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $9.99 to $9.99. The tracked-window low was $9.99 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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Platforms
linuxmacwindows
Genres
CasualIndieSimulation
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Passpartout: The Starving Artist sold?
- indielist estimates Passpartout: The Starving Artist has sold between 261,744 and 610,736 units (median 436,240), derived from its 6,232 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Passpartout: The Starving Artist?
- Passpartout: The Starving Artist was developed by Flamebait Games and published by Flamebait Games.
- Who published Passpartout: The Starving Artist?
- Passpartout: The Starving Artist was published by Flamebait Games, developed by Flamebait Games. See Flamebait Games's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was Passpartout: The Starving Artist released?
- Passpartout: The Starving Artist was released in 2017.
- How many reviews does Passpartout: The Starving Artist have on Steam?
- Passpartout: The Starving Artist has 6,232 Steam reviews, of which 88% are positive.
- Is Passpartout: The Starving Artist worth playing?
- Steam players rate Passpartout: The Starving Artist 88% positive across 6,232 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 Passpartout: The Starving Artist 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, Flamebait Games's other releases and Flamebait Games's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Passpartout: The Starving Artist 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 Passpartout: The Starving Artist 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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