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A casual indie game centered on phone dating sim gameplay, Dialtown: Phone Dating Sim launched in 2022 from developer and publisher directdoggo. It has 2,225 Steam reviews at 99% positive and a budget $7.99 initial price.
Overview
Dialtown: Phone Dating Sim is a 2022 Casual game developed by DirectDoggo and published by DirectDoggo. On Steam it has gathered 2,021 player reviews, 99% of them positive, which counts as a overwhelmingly positive reception among indie titles in the Casual category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $8. The pairing of developer DirectDoggo with publisher DirectDoggo 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 49,000 to 113,000 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, Dialtown: Phone Dating Sim can be compared against similar Casual titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
2,021
Positive
99%
Steam appid
1035990
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.049K to 113K
units (median: 81K)
≈ $221K to $517K modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2022 | 0 |
| price_$8 | -5 |
| positive_99% | +10 |
| genre_Casual | -15 |
| final NB | 40 |
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 Dialtown: Phone Dating Sim at roughly 49,000 to 113,000 copies, with a median around 81,000, derived from its 2,021 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $369K 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
1 observed day · window low $7.99Across 1 observed UTC day from 2026-07-22 to 2026-07-22, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $7.99 to $7.99. The tracked-window low was $7.99 on 2026-07-22.
Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.
Where to buy
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- Green Man Gaming
- Fanatical
- Humble Store
- GOG.com
Latest tracked store observations (2026-07-22 07:58 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
windows
Genres
CasualIndie
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Dialtown: Phone Dating Sim sold?
- indielist estimates Dialtown: Phone Dating Sim has sold between 48,504 and 113,176 units (median 80,840), derived from its 2,021 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Dialtown: Phone Dating Sim?
- Dialtown: Phone Dating Sim was developed by DirectDoggo and published by DirectDoggo.
- Who published Dialtown: Phone Dating Sim?
- Dialtown: Phone Dating Sim was published by DirectDoggo, developed by DirectDoggo. See DirectDoggo's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was Dialtown: Phone Dating Sim released?
- Dialtown: Phone Dating Sim was released in 2022.
- How many reviews does Dialtown: Phone Dating Sim have on Steam?
- Dialtown: Phone Dating Sim has 2,021 Steam reviews, of which 99% are positive.
- Is Dialtown: Phone Dating Sim worth playing?
- Steam players rate Dialtown: Phone Dating Sim 99% positive across 2,021 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 Dialtown: Phone Dating Sim can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Casual titles such as Garry's Mod, Wallpaper Engine, Factorio, Balatro, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, DirectDoggo's other releases and DirectDoggo's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Dialtown: Phone Dating Sim 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 Dialtown: Phone Dating Sim 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.
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