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A casual trains simulation and sandbox indie game, Rolling Line focuses on model railway building with a level editor and moddable support. Released in 2018 by Gaugepunk Games and self-published under the same slug, it has 2,505 Steam reviews with 96% positive sentiment.
Overview
Rolling Line is a 2018 Casual game developed by Gaugepunk Games and published by Gaugepunk Games. On Steam it has gathered 2,405 player reviews, 96% of them positive, which counts as a overwhelmingly positive reception among indie titles in the Casual category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $20. The pairing of developer Gaugepunk Games with publisher Gaugepunk Games 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 87,000 to 202,000 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, Rolling Line can be compared against similar Casual titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
2,405
Positive
96%
Steam appid
754150
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.087K to 202K
units (median: 144K)
≈ $989K to $2.3M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2018 | +15 |
| price_$20 | 0 |
| positive_96% | +10 |
| genre_Casual | -15 |
| final NB | 60 |
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 Rolling Line at roughly 87,000 to 202,000 copies, with a median around 144,000, derived from its 2,405 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $1.6M 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
15 observed days · window low $15.99Across 15 observed UTC days from 2026-06-04 to 2026-07-23, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $15.99 to $19.99. The tracked-window low was $15.99 on 2026-07-20.
Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.
Where to buy
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Platforms
windows
Tags
TrainsSimulationSandboxLevel EditorModdableTransportationCasualIndieVRSingleplayerBuildingRelaxingDrivingImmersive SimAnimation & ModelingFamily FriendlyOpen WorldCity Builder3DFirst-Person
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Rolling Line sold?
- indielist estimates Rolling Line has sold between 86,580 and 202,020 units (median 144,300), derived from its 2,405 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Rolling Line?
- Rolling Line was developed by Gaugepunk Games and published by Gaugepunk Games.
- Who published Rolling Line?
- Rolling Line was published by Gaugepunk Games, developed by Gaugepunk Games. See Gaugepunk Games's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was Rolling Line released?
- Rolling Line was released in 2018.
- How many reviews does Rolling Line have on Steam?
- Rolling Line has 2,405 Steam reviews, of which 96% are positive.
- Is Rolling Line worth playing?
- Steam players rate Rolling Line 96% positive across 2,405 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 Rolling Line can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Casual titles such as Transport Fever 2, House Flipper 2, House Flipper, Derail Valley, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Gaugepunk Games's other releases and Gaugepunk Games's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Rolling Line 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 Rolling Line 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.
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