How many copies has Sand:box sold?

indielist estimates Sand:box has sold between 23,910 and 55,790 units (median 39,850), derived from its 1,594 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.

Who developed Sand:box?

Sand:box was developed by smellymoo and published by smellymoo.

Who published Sand:box?

Sand:box was published by smellymoo, developed by smellymoo. See smellymoo's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.

How many reviews does Sand:box have on Steam?

Sand:box has 1,594 Steam reviews, of which 94% are positive.

Is Sand:box worth playing?

Steam players rate Sand:box 94% positive across 1,594 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.

Sand:box

Nov 24, 2023 Casual $1.99

Developer smellymoo Publisher smellymoo

Profile updated Jun 2026

Casual indie game Sand:box offers a low-cost sandbox-style entry point at $1.99. Released in 2023 by developer and publisher smellymoo, it has 1,538 Steam reviews listed as 0% positive with a mixed rating, making reception a key due-diligence signal.

Sand:box is a 2023 Casual game developed by smellymoo and published by smellymoo. On Steam it has gathered 1,594 player reviews, 94% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Casual category. The game is available on linux, mac, windows, and launched at $2. The pairing of developer smellymoo with publisher smellymoo 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 24,000 to 56,000 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, Sand:box can be compared against similar Casual titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.

Reviews

1,594

Positive

94%

Steam appid

2179380

Engine

Unknown

Players (snapshot)

Unavailable

Sales estimate

v1.0

24K to 56K

units (median: 40K)

≈ $27K to $63K modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)

24K median 56K

+ How is this calculated?

1,594 reviews × NB(25) = 39,850 median units

Factor	Adjustment
base	+50
year_2023	0
price_$2	-20
positive_94%	+10
genre_Casual	-15
final NB	25

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 Sand:box at roughly 24,000 to 56,000 copies, with a median around 40,000, derived from its 1,594 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $45K 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 $1.49

Across 8 observed UTC days from 2026-07-15 to 2026-07-22, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $1.49 to $1.99. The tracked-window low was $1.49 on 2026-07-15.

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

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Platforms

linuxmacwindows

Genres

CasualIndieSimulationFree To Play

Frequently asked questions

How many copies has Sand:box sold?: indielist estimates Sand:box has sold between 23,910 and 55,790 units (median 39,850), derived from its 1,594 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
Who developed Sand:box?: Sand:box was developed by smellymoo and published by smellymoo.
Who published Sand:box?: Sand:box was published by smellymoo, developed by smellymoo. See smellymoo's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
When was Sand:box released?: Sand:box was released in 2023.
How many reviews does Sand:box have on Steam?: Sand:box has 1,594 Steam reviews, of which 94% are positive.
Is Sand:box worth playing?: Steam players rate Sand:box 94% positive across 1,594 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 Sand:box 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, smellymoo's other releases and smellymoo's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Sand:box 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 Sand:box 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.

Matched from shared Steam tags and primary genre. Review count breaks ties; it is not a personal recommendation score.