How many copies has Political Animals sold?

indielist estimates Political Animals has sold between 6,846 and 15,974 units (median 11,410), derived from its 163 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.

Who developed Political Animals?

Political Animals was developed by Squeaky Wheel and published by Positech Games.

Who published Political Animals?

Political Animals was published by Positech Games, developed by Squeaky Wheel. See Positech Games's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.

When was Political Animals released?

Political Animals was released in 2016.

How many reviews does Political Animals have on Steam?

Political Animals has 163 Steam reviews, of which 69% are positive.

Is Political Animals worth playing?

Steam players rate Political Animals 69% positive across 163 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.

Political Animals

Nov 2, 2016 Indie $14.99

Developer Squeaky Wheel Publisher Positech Games

Profile updated Aug 2026

A politics-themed indie game from developer squeaky-wheel, Political Animals launched in 2016 with Positech Games as publisher. Its Steam page lists 162 reviews with a mixed rating, and the initial price was $14.99.

Political Animals is a 2016 Indie game developed by Squeaky Wheel and published by Positech Games. On Steam it has gathered 163 player reviews, 69% of them positive, which counts as a mixed-to-positive reception among indie titles in the Indie category. The game is available on linux, mac, windows, and launched at $15. The pairing of developer Squeaky Wheel with publisher Positech Games is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Indie projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 7,000 to 16,000 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, Political Animals can be compared against similar Indie titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.

Reviews

163

Positive

69%

Steam appid

458630

Engine

Unknown

Players (snapshot)

Unavailable

Sales estimate

v1.0

7K to 16K

units (median: 11K)

≈ $59K to $137K modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)

7K median 16K

+ How is this calculated?

163 reviews × NB(70) = 11,410 median units

Factor	Adjustment
base	+50
year_2016	+30
price_$15	0
positive_69%	-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 Political Animals at roughly 7,000 to 16,000 copies, with a median around 11,000, derived from its 163 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $98K 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 $4.49

Across 2 observed UTC days from 2026-08-25 to 2026-09-01, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $4.49 to $14.99. The tracked-window low was $4.49 on 2026-09-01.

Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.

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Platforms

linuxmacwindows

Genres

IndieSimulation Strategy

Frequently asked questions

How many copies has Political Animals sold?: indielist estimates Political Animals has sold between 6,846 and 15,974 units (median 11,410), derived from its 163 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
Who developed Political Animals?: Political Animals was developed by Squeaky Wheel and published by Positech Games.
Who published Political Animals?: Political Animals was published by Positech Games, developed by Squeaky Wheel. See Positech Games's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
When was Political Animals released?: Political Animals was released in 2016.
How many reviews does Political Animals have on Steam?: Political Animals has 163 Steam reviews, of which 69% are positive.
Is Political Animals worth playing?: Steam players rate Political Animals 69% positive across 163 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.

Players looking for games like Political Animals can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Indie titles such as Stardew Valley, Euro Truck Simulator 2, Project Zomboid, Undertale, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Squeaky Wheel's other releases and Positech Games's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Political Animals 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 Political Animals page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Indie 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.

Matched from shared Steam tags and primary genre. Review count breaks ties; it is not a personal recommendation score.