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This casual building sandbox, released in 2021, allows players to construct charming island towns. With over 19,964 Steam reviews showing a 95% positive rating, the game is self-published by oskar-st-lberg.
Overview
Townscaper is a 2021 Casual game developed by Oskar Stålberg and published by Raw Fury. On Steam it has gathered 21,532 player reviews, 95% of them positive, which counts as a overwhelmingly positive reception among indie titles in the Casual category. The game is available on mac, windows, and launched at $6. The pairing of developer Oskar Stålberg with publisher Raw Fury 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 711,000 to 1.7 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, Townscaper can be compared against similar Casual titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
21,532
Positive
95%
Steam appid
1291340
Engine
Unknown
Sales estimate
vv1.0711K to 1.7M
units (median: 1.2M)
≈ $2.4M to $5.7M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2021 | +15 |
| price_$6 | -5 |
| positive_95% | +10 |
| genre_Casual | -15 |
| final NB | 55 |
Confidence range: median × [0.6, 1.4]. Boundary protection: NB ∈ [15, 150].
Methodology & limitations
Sales estimates use a multi-factor Boxleiter method against public Steam review counts.
They are not authoritative sales data. Actual sales can deviate by
±50% in either direction. Free-to-play games, deeply discounted titles, and games
with heavy bundle distribution have larger error margins. Algorithm version
v1.0.
indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for Townscaper at roughly 711,000 to 1.7 million copies, with a median around 1.2 million, derived from its 21,532 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $4.1M 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
90d · low $3.80Over the last 90 days the price ranged from $3.80 to $5.99, averaging $5.54 across 2 discount windows, with a historical low of $3.80 on 2026-04-21.
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Where to buy
Affiliate disclosure- GOG.com -55%$2.69 Buy
- Steam reference$5.99 Buy
- Green Man Gaming$5.99 Buy
- Humble Store$5.99 Buy
- Fanatical -10%$6.24 Buy
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Platforms
macwindows
Tags
ExperimentalBuildingRelaxingSandboxCasualCity BuilderShortSingleplayerSimulationIndieStylizedFamily FriendlyAtmosphericCuteColorfulProcedural GenerationMinimalistOpen WorldControllerNature
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Townscaper sold?
- indielist estimates Townscaper has sold between 710,556 and 1,657,964 units (median 1,184,260), derived from its 21,532 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter vv1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Townscaper?
- Townscaper was developed by Oskar Stålberg and published by Raw Fury.
- When was Townscaper released?
- Townscaper was released in 2021.
- How many reviews does Townscaper have on Steam?
- Townscaper has 21,532 Steam reviews, of which 95% are positive.
Ecosystem
indielist positions Townscaper within the Casual segment so players can surface comparable titles by shared tags and genre rather than by storefront promotion. On the developer side, Oskar Stålberg's other releases and Raw Fury's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Townscaper 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 Townscaper 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.