TROUBLESHOOTER: Abandoned Children
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Casual-genre entry TROUBLESHOOTER: Abandoned Children launched in 2020. Developed and published by dandylion, it has 9,725 Steam reviews with a 94% positive Very Positive rating, and an initial price of $24.99.
Overview
TROUBLESHOOTER: Abandoned Children is a 2020 Casual game developed by Dandylion and published by Dandylion. On Steam it has gathered 9,725 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 windows, and launched at $25. The pairing of developer Dandylion with publisher Dandylion 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 379,000 to 885,000 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, TROUBLESHOOTER: Abandoned Children can be compared against similar Casual titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
9,725
Positive
94%
Steam appid
470310
Engine
Unknown
Sales estimate
vv1.0379K to 885K
units (median: 632K)
≈ $5.4M to $12.6M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2020 | +15 |
| price_$25 | +5 |
| positive_94% | +10 |
| genre_Casual | -15 |
| final NB | 65 |
Confidence range: median × [0.6, 1.4]. Boundary protection: NB ∈ [15, 150].
Methodology & limitations
Sales estimates use a multi-factor Boxleiter method against public Steam review counts.
They are not authoritative sales data. Actual sales can deviate by
±50% in either direction. Free-to-play games, deeply discounted titles, and games
with heavy bundle distribution have larger error margins. Algorithm version
v1.0.
indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for TROUBLESHOOTER: Abandoned Children at roughly 379,000 to 885,000 copies, with a median around 632,000, derived from its 9,725 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $9.0M 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
90d · low $15.80Over the last 90 days the price ranged from $15.80 to $24.99, averaging $23.51 across 3 discount windows, with a historical low of $15.80 on 2026-05-26.
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Where to buy
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Platforms
windows
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has TROUBLESHOOTER: Abandoned Children sold?
- indielist estimates TROUBLESHOOTER: Abandoned Children has sold between 379,275 and 884,975 units (median 632,125), derived from its 9,725 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter vv1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed TROUBLESHOOTER: Abandoned Children?
- TROUBLESHOOTER: Abandoned Children was developed by Dandylion and published by Dandylion.
- When was TROUBLESHOOTER: Abandoned Children released?
- TROUBLESHOOTER: Abandoned Children was released in 2020.
- How many reviews does TROUBLESHOOTER: Abandoned Children have on Steam?
- TROUBLESHOOTER: Abandoned Children has 9,725 Steam reviews, of which 94% are positive.
Ecosystem
indielist positions TROUBLESHOOTER: Abandoned Children within the Casual segment so players can surface comparable titles by shared tags and genre rather than by storefront promotion. On the developer side, Dandylion's other releases and Dandylion's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where TROUBLESHOOTER: Abandoned Children 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 TROUBLESHOOTER: Abandoned Children 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.