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Management, simulation, economy, and building systems anchor Software Inc., an Early Access indie game. Developed and published by coredumping, it released in 2015 and has 7,698 Steam reviews with 94% positive sentiment; initial price is $22.99.
Overview
Software Inc. is a 2015 Indie game developed by Coredumping and published by Coredumping. On Steam it has gathered 7,499 player reviews, 94% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Indie category. The game is available on linux, mac, windows, and launched at $23. The pairing of developer Coredumping with publisher Coredumping is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Indie projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 427,000 to 997,000 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, Software Inc. can be compared against similar Indie titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
7,499
Positive
94%
Steam appid
362620
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.0427K to 997K
units (median: 712K)
≈ $5.6M to $13.1M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2015 | +30 |
| price_$23 | +5 |
| positive_94% | +10 |
| final NB | 95 |
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 Software Inc. at roughly 427,000 to 997,000 copies, with a median around 712,000, derived from its 7,499 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $9.4M 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
50 observed days · window low $17.24Across 50 observed UTC days from 2026-06-03 to 2026-07-22, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $17.24 to $22.99. The tracked-window low was $17.24 on 2026-06-09.
Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.
Where to buy
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- Fanatical
- Humble Store
- GOG.com
Latest tracked store observations (2026-07-22 20:54 UTC), cheapest first. Prices may have changed since observation. Some are affiliate links — we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. Learn more.
Platforms
linuxmacwindows
Tags
Early AccessManagementSimulationEconomyBuildingCapitalismSandboxIndieGame DevelopmentModdableMultiplayerOnline Co-OpCo-opTutorialTime ManagementCharacter CustomizationProgrammingStrategy3DAutomation
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Software Inc. sold?
- indielist estimates Software Inc. has sold between 427,443 and 997,367 units (median 712,405), derived from its 7,499 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Software Inc.?
- Software Inc. was developed by Coredumping and published by Coredumping.
- Who published Software Inc.?
- Software Inc. was published by Coredumping, developed by Coredumping. See Coredumping's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was Software Inc. released?
- Software Inc. was released in 2015.
- How many reviews does Software Inc. have on Steam?
- Software Inc. has 7,499 Steam reviews, of which 94% are positive.
- Is Software Inc. worth playing?
- Steam players rate Software Inc. 94% positive across 7,499 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 Software Inc. can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Indie titles such as Factory Town, Prison Architect, Going Medieval, Automation - The Car Company Tycoon Game, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Coredumping's other releases and Coredumping's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Software Inc. 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 Software Inc. page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Indie 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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