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Casual indie game The Counter Gambit launched in 2026, developed and self-published by pimp-studios. Its $6.99 initial price places it in the budget range, while 76 Steam reviews are 74% positive, indicating mixed-to-positive reception.
Overview
The Counter Gambit is a 2026 Casual game developed by Pimp Studios and published by Pimp Studios. It is tracked in indielist's catalog of indie Casual titles alongside its developer and publisher relationships. The game is available on windows, and launched at $7. The pairing of developer Pimp Studios with publisher Pimp Studios 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 publishes a transparent, white-box sales estimate with the full Boxleiter factor breakdown on this page rather than a single black-box figure. Within indielist's catalog of indie games mapped to their studios, publishers, and funding, The Counter Gambit can be compared against similar Casual titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
0
Positive
73%
Steam appid
4103060
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.00 to 0
units (median: 0)
≈ $0 to $0 modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2026 | -10 |
| price_$7 | -5 |
| positive_73% | 0 |
| genre_Casual | -15 |
| final NB | 20 |
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.
Sales estimates for The Counter Gambit are not yet available because its Steam review count is still being collected. indielist publishes a fully transparent, white-box Boxleiter-derived method rather than a single black-box number, so every estimate can be inspected factor by factor once review data lands.
Price history
No tracked store price observations are available for this game in the last 90 days.
Where to buy
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- Green Man Gaming
- Fanatical
- Humble Store
- GOG.com
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Platforms
windows
Genres
CasualIndie
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has The Counter Gambit sold?
- indielist estimates The Counter Gambit has sold between 0 and 0 units (median 0), derived from its 0 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed The Counter Gambit?
- The Counter Gambit was developed by Pimp Studios and published by Pimp Studios.
- Who published The Counter Gambit?
- The Counter Gambit was published by Pimp Studios, developed by Pimp Studios. See Pimp Studios's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was The Counter Gambit released?
- The Counter Gambit was released in 2026.
Ecosystem
Players looking for games like The Counter Gambit 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, Pimp Studios's other releases and Pimp Studios's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where The Counter Gambit 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 The Counter Gambit 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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