How many copies has Super Meat Boy sold?

indielist estimates Super Meat Boy has sold between 1,605,636 and 3,746,484 units (median 2,676,060), derived from its 29,734 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.

Who developed Super Meat Boy?

Super Meat Boy was developed by Team Meat and is self-published.

When was Super Meat Boy released?

Super Meat Boy was released in 2010.

How many reviews does Super Meat Boy have on Steam?

Super Meat Boy has 29,734 Steam reviews, of which 94% are positive.

Is Super Meat Boy worth playing?

Steam players rate Super Meat Boy 94% positive across 29,734 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.

Super Meat Boy

Nov 30, 2010 Indie $14.99

Developer Team Meat self-published

Profile updated May 2026

This platformer, released in 2010, features challenging gameplay and has garnered 28,707 Steam reviews. Its developer is unknown, with publisher attribution not yet imported.

Super Meat Boy is a 2010 Indie game developed by Team Meat, who self-published it. On Steam it has gathered 29,734 player reviews, 94% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Indie category. The game is available on linux, mac, windows, and launched at $15. As a self-published Indie project, Super Meat Boy sits among the independent releases indielist tracks where the developer Team Meat retained both creative and commercial control, a path many indie studios weigh against signing with a publisher. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 1.6 million to 3.7 million 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, Super Meat Boy can be compared against similar Indie titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.

Reviews

29,734

Positive

94%

Steam appid

40800

Engine

Unknown

Players (snapshot)

565

Historical snapshot · 2026-05-31 19:40 UTC

Sales estimate

v1.0

1.6M to 3.7M

units (median: 2.7M)

≈ $13.7M to $32.1M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)

1.6M median 3.7M

+ How is this calculated?

29,734 reviews × NB(90) = 2,676,060 median units

Factor	Adjustment
base	+50
year_2010	+30
price_$15	0
positive_94%	+10
final NB	90

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 Super Meat Boy at roughly 1.6 million to 3.7 million copies, with a median around 2.7 million, derived from its 29,734 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $22.9M 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

53 observed days · window low $1.19

Across 53 observed UTC days from 2026-05-31 to 2026-07-22, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $1.19 to $14.99. The tracked-window low was $1.19 on 2026-05-31.

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

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Platforms

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Frequently asked questions

How many copies has Super Meat Boy sold?: indielist estimates Super Meat Boy has sold between 1,605,636 and 3,746,484 units (median 2,676,060), derived from its 29,734 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
Who developed Super Meat Boy?: Super Meat Boy was developed by Team Meat and is self-published.
When was Super Meat Boy released?: Super Meat Boy was released in 2010.
How many reviews does Super Meat Boy have on Steam?: Super Meat Boy has 29,734 Steam reviews, of which 94% are positive.
Is Super Meat Boy worth playing?: Steam players rate Super Meat Boy 94% positive across 29,734 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 Super Meat Boy can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Indie titles such as Pizza Tower, Celeste, Katana ZERO, SANABI, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Team Meat's other releases are one click away, letting players and analysts see where Super Meat Boy sits among the studio's body of work without a publisher in the loop. Because indielist maps studios, publishers, games, and funding into one connected graph, the same Super Meat Boy 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.