How many copies has The Salesman sold?

indielist estimates The Salesman has sold between 12,996 and 30,324 units (median 21,660), derived from its 722 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.

Who published The Salesman?

The Salesman was published by Bad Ideas Productions, developed by Backstab Industries. See Bad Ideas Productions's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.

When was The Salesman released?

The Salesman was released in 2025.

How many reviews does The Salesman have on Steam?

The Salesman has 722 Steam reviews, of which 82% are positive.

Is The Salesman worth playing?

Steam players rate The Salesman 82% positive across 722 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.

The Salesman

Nov 13, 2025 Adventure $4.99

Developer Backstab Industries Publisher Bad Ideas Productions

Profile updated Jul 2026

Adventure indie game The Salesman comes from developer backstab-industries and publisher bad-ideas-productions. Released in 2025 at $4.99, it has 731 Steam reviews with 82% positive, giving it a budget hidden-gem signal.

The Salesman is a 2025 Adventure game developed by Backstab Industries and published by Bad Ideas Productions. On Steam it has gathered 722 player reviews, 82% of them positive, which counts as a mostly positive reception among indie titles in the Adventure category. The game is available on linux, mac, windows, and launched at $5. The pairing of developer Backstab Industries with publisher Bad Ideas Productions is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Adventure projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 13,000 to 30,000 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, The Salesman can be compared against similar Adventure titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.

Reviews

722

Positive

82%

Steam appid

4059360

Engine

Unknown

Players (snapshot)

Unavailable

Sales estimate

v1.0

13K to 30K

units (median: 22K)

≈ $37K to $86K modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)

13K median 30K

+ How is this calculated?

722 reviews × NB(30) = 21,660 median units

Factor	Adjustment
base	+50
year_2025	-10
price_$5	-20
positive_82%	0
genre_Adventure	+10
final NB	30

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 The Salesman at roughly 13,000 to 30,000 copies, with a median around 22,000, derived from its 722 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $62K 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 $4.99

Across 13 observed UTC days from 2026-07-17 to 2026-09-04, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $4.99 to $4.99. The tracked-window low was $4.99 on 2026-07-17.

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

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Platforms

linuxmacwindows

Genres

AdventureIndieSimulation

Frequently asked questions

How many copies has The Salesman sold?: indielist estimates The Salesman has sold between 12,996 and 30,324 units (median 21,660), derived from its 722 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
Who developed The Salesman?: The Salesman was developed by Backstab Industries and published by Bad Ideas Productions.
Who published The Salesman?: The Salesman was published by Bad Ideas Productions, developed by Backstab Industries. See Bad Ideas Productions's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
When was The Salesman released?: The Salesman was released in 2025.
How many reviews does The Salesman have on Steam?: The Salesman has 722 Steam reviews, of which 82% are positive.
Is The Salesman worth playing?: Steam players rate The Salesman 82% positive across 722 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 The Salesman can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Adventure titles such as Subnautica, Raft, Satisfactory, Human Fall Flat, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Backstab Industries's other releases and Bad Ideas Productions's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where The Salesman 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 Salesman page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Adventure 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.