How many copies has Contractors sold?

indielist estimates Contractors has sold between 182,013 and 424,697 units (median 303,355), derived from its 4,667 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.

Who developed Contractors?

Contractors was developed by Caveman Studio and published by Caveman Studio.

Who published Contractors?

Contractors was published by Caveman Studio, developed by Caveman Studio. See Caveman Studio's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.

When was Contractors released?

Contractors was released in 2018.

How many reviews does Contractors have on Steam?

Contractors has 4,667 Steam reviews, of which 83% are positive.

Is Contractors worth playing?

Steam players rate Contractors 83% positive across 4,667 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.

Contractors

Dec 14, 2018 Action $19.99

Developer Caveman Studio Publisher Caveman Studio

Profile updated May 2026

Action game Contractors, released in 2018, offers a simulation experience with 4,024 Steam reviews. Its indie status is further reinforced by its casual and action tags.

Contractors is a 2018 Action game developed by Caveman Studio and published by Caveman Studio. On Steam it has gathered 4,667 player reviews, 83% of them positive, which counts as a mostly positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $20. The pairing of developer Caveman Studio with publisher Caveman Studio 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 182,000 to 425,000 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, Contractors can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.

Reviews

4,667

Positive

83%

Steam appid

963930

Engine

Unknown

Players (snapshot)

Historical snapshot · 2026-05-24 14:20 UTC

Sales estimate

v1.0

182K to 425K

units (median: 303K)

≈ $2.1M to $4.8M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)

182K median 425K

+ How is this calculated?

4,667 reviews × NB(65) = 303,355 median units

Factor	Adjustment
base	+50
year_2018	+15
price_$20	0
positive_83%	0
final NB	65

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 Contractors at roughly 182,000 to 425,000 copies, with a median around 303,000, derived from its 4,667 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $3.5M 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

21 observed days · window low $19.99

Across 21 observed UTC days from 2026-05-31 to 2026-07-23, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $19.99 to $19.99. The tracked-window low was $19.99 on 2026-05-31.

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

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Platforms

windows

Frequently asked questions

How many copies has Contractors sold?: indielist estimates Contractors has sold between 182,013 and 424,697 units (median 303,355), derived from its 4,667 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
Who developed Contractors?: Contractors was developed by Caveman Studio and published by Caveman Studio.
Who published Contractors?: Contractors was published by Caveman Studio, developed by Caveman Studio. See Caveman Studio's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
When was Contractors released?: Contractors was released in 2018.
How many reviews does Contractors have on Steam?: Contractors has 4,667 Steam reviews, of which 83% are positive.
Is Contractors worth playing?: Steam players rate Contractors 83% positive across 4,667 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 Contractors can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Action titles such as Pavlov, Onward, GROUND BRANCH, Hell Let Loose, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Caveman Studio's other releases and Caveman Studio's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Contractors 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 Contractors 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.

Matched from shared Steam tags and primary genre. Review count breaks ties; it is not a personal recommendation score.