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Adventure indie game Jalopy centers on road-trip gameplay from developer minskworks. Published by Excalibur Games in 2018, it has 11,273 Steam reviews with 76% positive sentiment and an initial price of $14.99.
Overview
Jalopy is a 2018 Adventure game developed by Minskworks and published by Excalibur Games. On Steam it has gathered 8,958 player reviews, 76% of them positive, which counts as a mostly positive reception among indie titles in the Adventure category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $15. The pairing of developer Minskworks with publisher Excalibur Games is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Adventure projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 403,000 to 941,000 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, Jalopy can be compared against similar Adventure titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
8,958
Positive
76%
Steam appid
446020
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.0403K to 941K
units (median: 672K)
≈ $3.5M to $8.1M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2018 | +15 |
| price_$15 | 0 |
| positive_76% | 0 |
| genre_Adventure | +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 Jalopy at roughly 403,000 to 941,000 copies, with a median around 672,000, derived from its 8,958 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $5.8M 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 $14.99Across 8 observed UTC days from 2026-07-15 to 2026-07-22, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $14.99 to $14.99. The tracked-window low was $14.99 on 2026-07-15.
Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.
Where to buy
Affiliate disclosure- Steam reference$14.99 Buy
- Humble Store$14.99 Buy
- GOG.com$14.99 Buy
- Fanatical -10%$15.39 Buy
- Green Man Gaming
Latest tracked store observations (2026-07-22 12:39 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
AdventureIndieSimulation
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Jalopy sold?
- indielist estimates Jalopy has sold between 403,110 and 940,590 units (median 671,850), derived from its 8,958 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Jalopy?
- Jalopy was developed by Minskworks and published by Excalibur Games.
- Who published Jalopy?
- Jalopy was published by Excalibur Games, developed by Minskworks. See Excalibur Games's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was Jalopy released?
- Jalopy was released in 2018.
- How many reviews does Jalopy have on Steam?
- Jalopy has 8,958 Steam reviews, of which 76% are positive.
- Is Jalopy worth playing?
- Steam players rate Jalopy 76% positive across 8,958 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 Jalopy can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Adventure titles such as Subnautica, Raft, Satisfactory, Human Fall Flat, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Minskworks's other releases and Excalibur Games's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Jalopy 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 Jalopy page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Adventure 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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