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Action indie game The Swindle launched in 2015, with size-five-games serving as both developer and publisher. Its initial price was $14.99, and the supplied Steam figures list 502 reviews with a mixed rating, alongside a reported 0% positive share.
Overview
The Swindle is a 2015 Action game developed by Size Five Games and published by Size Five Games. On Steam it has gathered 502 player reviews, 65% of them positive, which counts as a mixed reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on mac, windows, and launched at $15. The pairing of developer Size Five Games with publisher Size Five Games is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Action projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 21,000 to 49,000 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 Swindle can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
502
Positive
65%
Steam appid
369110
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.021K to 49K
units (median: 35K)
≈ $181K to $421K modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2015 | +30 |
| price_$15 | 0 |
| positive_65% | -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 The Swindle at roughly 21,000 to 49,000 copies, with a median around 35,000, derived from its 502 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $301K 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 $3.75Across 2 observed UTC days from 2026-10-15 to 2026-10-22, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $3.75 to $3.75. The tracked-window low was $3.75 on 2026-10-15.
Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.
Where to buy
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Platforms
macwindows
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has The Swindle sold?
- indielist estimates The Swindle has sold between 21,084 and 49,196 units (median 35,140), derived from its 502 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed The Swindle?
- The Swindle was developed by Size Five Games and published by Size Five Games.
- Who published The Swindle?
- The Swindle was published by Size Five Games, developed by Size Five Games. See Size Five Games's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was The Swindle released?
- The Swindle was released in 2015.
- How many reviews does The Swindle have on Steam?
- The Swindle has 502 Steam reviews, of which 65% are positive.
- Is The Swindle worth playing?
- Steam players rate The Swindle 65% positive across 502 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 The Swindle can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Action titles such as Terraria, Rust, Phasmophobia, Geometry Dash, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Size Five Games's other releases and Size Five Games's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where The Swindle 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 Swindle page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Action 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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