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Casual indie game Puffin Planes launched in 2024 from catinrain-llc, which is listed as both developer and publisher. On Steam it has 335 user reviews with 95% positive, a Very Positive rating, and an initial price of $11.99.
Overview
Puffin Planes is a 2024 Casual game developed by CATINRAIN LLC and published by CATINRAIN LLC. On Steam it has gathered 340 player reviews, 95% 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 $12. The pairing of developer CATINRAIN LLC with publisher CATINRAIN LLC 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 9,000 to 21,000 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, Puffin Planes can be compared against similar Casual titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
340
Positive
95%
Steam appid
2897240
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.09K to 21K
units (median: 15K)
≈ $63K to $147K modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2024 | 0 |
| price_$12 | 0 |
| positive_95% | +10 |
| 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 Puffin Planes at roughly 9,000 to 21,000 copies, with a median around 15,000, derived from its 340 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $105K 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
13 observed days · window low $5.99Across 13 observed UTC days from 2026-07-17 to 2026-09-05, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $5.99 to $11.99. The tracked-window low was $5.99 on 2026-09-05.
Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.
Where to buy
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Platforms
windows
Genres
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Puffin Planes sold?
- indielist estimates Puffin Planes has sold between 9,180 and 21,420 units (median 15,300), derived from its 340 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Puffin Planes?
- Puffin Planes was developed by CATINRAIN LLC and published by CATINRAIN LLC.
- Who published Puffin Planes?
- Puffin Planes was published by CATINRAIN LLC, developed by CATINRAIN LLC. See CATINRAIN LLC's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was Puffin Planes released?
- Puffin Planes was released in 2024.
- How many reviews does Puffin Planes have on Steam?
- Puffin Planes has 340 Steam reviews, of which 95% are positive.
- Is Puffin Planes worth playing?
- Steam players rate Puffin Planes 95% positive across 340 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 Puffin Planes 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, CATINRAIN LLC's other releases and CATINRAIN LLC's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Puffin Planes 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 Puffin Planes 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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