How many copies has Cruelty Squad sold?

indielist estimates Cruelty Squad has sold between 1,023,480 and 2,388,120 units (median 1,705,800), derived from its 22,744 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.

Who published Cruelty Squad?

Cruelty Squad was published by Consumer Softproducts, developed by Consumer Softproducts. See Consumer Softproducts's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.

When was Cruelty Squad released?

Cruelty Squad was released in 2021.

How many reviews does Cruelty Squad have on Steam?

Cruelty Squad has 22,744 Steam reviews, of which 96% are positive.

Is Cruelty Squad worth playing?

Steam players rate Cruelty Squad 96% positive across 22,744 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.

Cruelty Squad

Jun 15, 2021 Action $19.99

Developer Consumer Softproducts Publisher Consumer Softproducts

Profile updated Jun 2026

Action indie game Cruelty Squad comes from developer and publisher consumer-softproducts, indicating a self-published release. Launched in 2021 at $19.99, it has 23,596 Steam reviews with 96% positive, an overwhelmingly positive rating.

Cruelty Squad is a 2021 Action game developed by Consumer Softproducts and published by Consumer Softproducts. On Steam it has gathered 22,744 player reviews, 96% of them positive, which counts as a overwhelmingly positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $20. The pairing of developer Consumer Softproducts with publisher Consumer Softproducts 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 1.0 million to 2.4 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, Cruelty Squad can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.

Reviews

22,744

Positive

96%

Steam appid

1388770

Engine

Unknown

Players (snapshot)

Unavailable

Sales estimate

v1.0

1.0M to 2.4M

units (median: 1.7M)

≈ $11.7M to $27.3M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)

1.0M median 2.4M

+ How is this calculated?

22,744 reviews × NB(75) = 1,705,800 median units

Factor	Adjustment
base	+50
year_2021	+15
price_$20	0
positive_96%	+10
final NB	75

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 Cruelty Squad at roughly 1.0 million to 2.4 million copies, with a median around 1.7 million, derived from its 22,744 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $19.5M 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

41 observed days · window low $1.99

Across 41 observed UTC days from 2026-06-12 to 2026-07-22, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $1.99 to $19.99. The tracked-window low was $1.99 on 2026-06-16.

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

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Platforms

windows

Genres

ActionIndieSimulation

Frequently asked questions

How many copies has Cruelty Squad sold?: indielist estimates Cruelty Squad has sold between 1,023,480 and 2,388,120 units (median 1,705,800), derived from its 22,744 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
Who developed Cruelty Squad?: Cruelty Squad was developed by Consumer Softproducts and published by Consumer Softproducts.
Who published Cruelty Squad?: Cruelty Squad was published by Consumer Softproducts, developed by Consumer Softproducts. See Consumer Softproducts's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
When was Cruelty Squad released?: Cruelty Squad was released in 2021.
How many reviews does Cruelty Squad have on Steam?: Cruelty Squad has 22,744 Steam reviews, of which 96% are positive.
Is Cruelty Squad worth playing?: Steam players rate Cruelty Squad 96% positive across 22,744 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 Cruelty Squad 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, Consumer Softproducts's other releases and Consumer Softproducts's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Cruelty Squad 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 Cruelty Squad 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.