How many copies has Factorio sold?

indielist estimates Factorio has sold between 8,712,855 and 20,329,995 units (median 14,521,425), derived from its 193,619 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.

Who published Factorio?

Factorio was published by Wube Software LTD., developed by Wube Software LTD.. See Wube Software LTD.'s full catalogue and submission status on indielist.

How many reviews does Factorio have on Steam?

Factorio has 193,619 Steam reviews, of which 98% are positive.

Is Factorio worth playing?

Steam players rate Factorio 98% positive across 193,619 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.

Factorio

Aug 14, 2020 Casual $35.00

Developer Wube Software LTD. Publisher Wube Software LTD.

Profile updated May 2026

Automation and resource management define this title, which saw its official release in 2020. It maintains an overwhelmingly positive rating based on 114,900 reviews on Steam. The game is classified under the indie tag and is self-published by its developer.

Factorio is a 2020 Casual game developed by Wube Software LTD. and published by Wube Software LTD.. On Steam it has gathered 193,619 player reviews, 98% of them positive, which counts as a overwhelmingly positive reception among indie titles in the Casual category. The game is available on linux, mac, windows, and launched at $35. The pairing of developer Wube Software LTD. with publisher Wube Software LTD. 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 8.7 million to 20.3 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, Factorio can be compared against similar Casual titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.

Reviews

193,619

Positive

98%

Steam appid

427520

Engine

Unknown

Players (snapshot)

18,830

Fresh snapshot · 2026-07-24 14:25 UTC · 24h peak 21,513

Sales estimate

v1.0

8.7M to 20.3M

units (median: 14.5M)

≈ $174.2M to $406.4M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)

8.7M median 20.3M

+ How is this calculated?

193,619 reviews × NB(75) = 14,521,425 median units

Factor	Adjustment
base	+50
year_2020	+15
price_$35	+15
positive_98%	+10
genre_Casual	-15
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 Factorio at roughly 8.7 million to 20.3 million copies, with a median around 14.5 million, derived from its 193,619 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $290.3M 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

55 observed days · window low $35.00

Across 55 observed UTC days from 2026-05-15 to 2026-07-24, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $35.00 to $35.00. The tracked-window low was $35.00 on 2026-05-15.

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

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Platforms

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Frequently asked questions

How many copies has Factorio sold?: indielist estimates Factorio has sold between 8,712,855 and 20,329,995 units (median 14,521,425), derived from its 193,619 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
Who developed Factorio?: Factorio was developed by Wube Software LTD. and published by Wube Software LTD..
Who published Factorio?: Factorio was published by Wube Software LTD., developed by Wube Software LTD.. See Wube Software LTD.'s full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
When was Factorio released?: Factorio was released in 2020.
How many reviews does Factorio have on Steam?: Factorio has 193,619 Steam reviews, of which 98% are positive.
Is Factorio worth playing?: Steam players rate Factorio 98% positive across 193,619 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 Factorio can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Casual titles such as shapez, Satisfactory, Space Haven, Factory Town, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Wube Software LTD.'s other releases and Wube Software LTD.'s wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Factorio 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 Factorio 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.