How many copies has Root sold?

indielist estimates Root has sold between 244,845 and 571,305 units (median 408,075), derived from its 5,441 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.

Root was developed by Dire Wolf and published by Dire Wolf.

Root was published by Dire Wolf, developed by Dire Wolf. See Dire Wolf's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.

How many reviews does Root have on Steam?

Root has 5,441 Steam reviews, of which 90% are positive.

Is Root worth playing?

Steam players rate Root 90% positive across 5,441 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.

Root

Sep 24, 2020 Indie $14.99

Developer Dire Wolf Publisher Dire Wolf

Profile updated May 2026

Root is a 2020 indie strategy simulation game. It has garnered 4,805 Steam reviews. Publisher and developer attribution is not yet imported.

Root is a 2020 Indie game developed by Dire Wolf and published by Dire Wolf. On Steam it has gathered 5,441 player reviews, 90% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Indie category. The game is available on mac, windows, and launched at $15. The pairing of developer Dire Wolf with publisher Dire Wolf is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Indie projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 245,000 to 571,000 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, Root can be compared against similar Indie titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.

Reviews

5,441

Positive

90%

Steam appid

965580

Engine

Unknown

Players (snapshot)

125

Historical snapshot · 2026-05-24 14:05 UTC

Sales estimate

v1.0

245K to 571K

units (median: 408K)

≈ $2.1M to $4.9M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)

245K median 571K

+ How is this calculated?

5,441 reviews × NB(75) = 408,075 median units

Factor	Adjustment
base	+50
year_2020	+15
price_$15	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 Root at roughly 245,000 to 571,000 copies, with a median around 408,000, derived from its 5,441 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $3.5M 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

26 observed days · window low $7.49

Across 26 observed UTC days from 2026-05-31 to 2026-07-23, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $7.49 to $14.99. The tracked-window low was $7.49 on 2026-06-12.

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

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Platforms

macwindows

Frequently asked questions

How many copies has Root sold?: indielist estimates Root has sold between 244,845 and 571,305 units (median 408,075), derived from its 5,441 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
Who developed Root?: Root was developed by Dire Wolf and published by Dire Wolf.
Who published Root?: Root was published by Dire Wolf, developed by Dire Wolf. See Dire Wolf's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
When was Root released?: Root was released in 2020.
How many reviews does Root have on Steam?: Root has 5,441 Steam reviews, of which 90% are positive.
Is Root worth playing?: Steam players rate Root 90% positive across 5,441 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 Root can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Indie titles such as Ultimate General: Civil War, Talisman: Digital Classic Edition, Turmoil, 5D Chess With Multiverse Time Travel, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Dire Wolf's other releases and Dire Wolf's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Root 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 Root page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Indie 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.