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Forager is an action-adventure simulation game released in 2019. It has garnered 34,880 reviews on Steam. The developer and publisher attribution are not yet imported.
Overview
Forager is a 2019 Action game developed by HopFrog and published by Balor Games. On Steam it has gathered 43,850 player reviews, 90% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $20. The pairing of developer HopFrog with publisher Balor Games 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 2.0 million to 4.6 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, Forager can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
43,850
Positive
90%
Steam appid
751780
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
591
Historical snapshot ·
Sales estimate
v1.02.0M to 4.6M
units (median: 3.3M)
≈ $22.5M to $52.6M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2019 | +15 |
| price_$20 | 0 |
| positive_90% | +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 Forager at roughly 2.0 million to 4.6 million copies, with a median around 3.3 million, derived from its 43,850 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $37.6M 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
54 observed days · window low $5.95Across 54 observed UTC days from 2026-05-31 to 2026-07-24, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $5.95 to $19.99. The tracked-window low was $5.95 on 2026-05-31.
Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.
Where to buy
Affiliate disclosure- Green Man Gaming -70%$5.95 Buy
- Steam reference$19.99 Buy
- Humble Store$19.99 Buy
- GOG.com$19.99 Buy
- Fanatical
Latest tracked store observations (2026-07-24 04:28 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
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Forager sold?
- indielist estimates Forager has sold between 1,973,250 and 4,604,250 units (median 3,288,750), derived from its 43,850 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Forager?
- Forager was developed by HopFrog and published by Balor Games.
- Who published Forager?
- Forager was published by Balor Games, developed by HopFrog. See Balor Games's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was Forager released?
- Forager was released in 2019.
- How many reviews does Forager have on Steam?
- Forager has 43,850 Steam reviews, of which 90% are positive.
- Is Forager worth playing?
- Steam players rate Forager 90% positive across 43,850 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 Forager can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Action titles such as Terraria, Necesse, Starbound, Voidtrain, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, HopFrog's other releases and Balor Games's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Forager 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 Forager 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.
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- T
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Action
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- N
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Shared tags: Open World Survival Craft, Multiplayer, Open World
- S
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- V
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Action
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- S
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Shared tags: Farming Sim, Pixel Graphics, Multiplayer
- S
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Adventure
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