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Action indie game Tooth and Tail launched in 2017 from Pocketwatch Games, with the studio listed as both developer and publisher. It has 2,872 Steam reviews marked mixed and an initial price of $19.99.
Overview
Tooth and Tail is a 2017 Action game developed by Pocketwatch Games and published by Pocketwatch Games. On Steam it has gathered 2,883 player reviews, 80% of them positive, which counts as a mostly positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on linux, mac, windows, and launched at $20. The pairing of developer Pocketwatch Games with publisher Pocketwatch 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 138,000 to 323,000 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, Tooth and Tail can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
2,883
Positive
80%
Steam appid
286000
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.0138K to 323K
units (median: 231K)
≈ $1.6M to $3.7M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2017 | +30 |
| price_$20 | 0 |
| positive_80% | 0 |
| final NB | 80 |
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 Tooth and Tail at roughly 138,000 to 323,000 copies, with a median around 231,000, derived from its 2,883 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $2.6M 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
8 observed days · window low $19.99Across 8 observed UTC days from 2026-07-15 to 2026-07-22, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $19.99 to $19.99. The tracked-window low was $19.99 on 2026-07-15.
Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.
Where to buy
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Platforms
linuxmacwindows
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Tooth and Tail sold?
- indielist estimates Tooth and Tail has sold between 138,384 and 322,896 units (median 230,640), derived from its 2,883 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Tooth and Tail?
- Tooth and Tail was developed by Pocketwatch Games and published by Pocketwatch Games.
- Who published Tooth and Tail?
- Tooth and Tail was published by Pocketwatch Games, developed by Pocketwatch Games. See Pocketwatch Games's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was Tooth and Tail released?
- Tooth and Tail was released in 2017.
- How many reviews does Tooth and Tail have on Steam?
- Tooth and Tail has 2,883 Steam reviews, of which 80% are positive.
- Is Tooth and Tail worth playing?
- Steam players rate Tooth and Tail 80% positive across 2,883 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 Tooth and Tail can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Action titles such as Rust, Terraria, Phasmophobia, ARK: Survival Evolved, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Pocketwatch Games's other releases and Pocketwatch Games's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Tooth and Tail 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 Tooth and Tail 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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