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This action RPG, released in 2016, features a unique premise and has garnered 8,834 Steam reviews. The developer is currently unknown, with publisher attribution not yet imported.
Overview
Death Road to Canada is a 2016 Action game developed by Rocketcat Games and published by Rocketcat Games. On Steam it has gathered 8,986 player reviews, 93% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on linux, mac, windows, and launched at $15. The pairing of developer Rocketcat Games with publisher Rocketcat 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 485,000 to 1.1 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, Death Road to Canada can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
8,986
Positive
93%
Steam appid
252610
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
81
Historical snapshot ·
Sales estimate
v1.0485K to 1.1M
units (median: 809K)
≈ $4.2M to $9.7M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2016 | +30 |
| price_$15 | 0 |
| positive_93% | +10 |
| final NB | 90 |
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 Death Road to Canada at roughly 485,000 to 1.1 million copies, with a median around 809,000, derived from its 8,986 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $6.9M 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 $2.24Across 54 observed UTC days from 2026-05-31 to 2026-07-24, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $2.24 to $14.99. The tracked-window low was $2.24 on 2026-06-26.
Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.
Where to buy
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Platforms
linuxmacwindows
Tags
Pixel GraphicsZombiesAction RoguelikeLocal Co-OpSurvivalActionRogue-likeCharacter CustomizationIndieComedyGreat SoundtrackRPGMultiplayerReplay ValueCo-op2DFunnyDifficultRogue-liteMemes
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Death Road to Canada sold?
- indielist estimates Death Road to Canada has sold between 485,244 and 1,132,236 units (median 808,740), derived from its 8,986 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Death Road to Canada?
- Death Road to Canada was developed by Rocketcat Games and published by Rocketcat Games.
- Who published Death Road to Canada?
- Death Road to Canada was published by Rocketcat Games, developed by Rocketcat Games. See Rocketcat Games's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was Death Road to Canada released?
- Death Road to Canada was released in 2016.
- How many reviews does Death Road to Canada have on Steam?
- Death Road to Canada has 8,986 Steam reviews, of which 93% are positive.
- Is Death Road to Canada worth playing?
- Steam players rate Death Road to Canada 93% positive across 8,986 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 Death Road to Canada can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Action titles such as Risk of Rain (2013), Streets of Rogue, The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth, Enter the Gungeon, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Rocketcat Games's other releases and Rocketcat Games's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Death Road to Canada 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 Death Road to Canada 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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