How many copies has Captain of Industry sold?

indielist estimates Captain of Industry has sold between 480,690 and 1,121,610 units (median 801,150), derived from its 10,682 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.

Who developed Captain of Industry?

Captain of Industry was developed by MaFi Games and published by MaFi Games.

Who published Captain of Industry?

Captain of Industry was published by MaFi Games, developed by MaFi Games. See MaFi Games's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.

When was Captain of Industry released?

Captain of Industry was released in 2022.

How many reviews does Captain of Industry have on Steam?

Captain of Industry has 10,682 Steam reviews, of which 90% are positive.

Is Captain of Industry worth playing?

Steam players rate Captain of Industry 90% positive across 10,682 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.

Captain of Industry

May 31, 2022 Indie $34.99

Developer MaFi Games Publisher MaFi Games

Profile updated May 2026

Players manage industrial production, logistics, and resource extraction on a remote island. This simulation title launched in 2022 and maintains a very positive rating across 5,444 reviews on Steam. The project is self-published, providing a direct look at the developer's operational scale and market reception.

Captain of Industry is a 2022 Indie game developed by MaFi Games and published by MaFi Games. On Steam it has gathered 10,682 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 windows, and launched at $35. The pairing of developer MaFi Games with publisher MaFi Games 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 481,000 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, Captain of Industry can be compared against similar Indie titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.

Reviews

10,682

Positive

90%

Steam appid

1594320

Engine

Unknown

Players (snapshot)

4,231

Historical snapshot · 2026-05-24 17:10 UTC

Sales estimate

v1.0

481K to 1.1M

units (median: 801K)

≈ $9.6M to $22.4M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)

481K median 1.1M

+ How is this calculated?

10,682 reviews × NB(75) = 801,150 median units

Factor	Adjustment
base	+50
year_2022	0
price_$35	+15
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 Captain of Industry at roughly 481,000 to 1.1 million copies, with a median around 801,000, derived from its 10,682 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $16.0M 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 $24.49

Across 55 observed UTC days from 2026-05-15 to 2026-07-24, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $24.49 to $34.99. The tracked-window low was $24.49 on 2026-05-31.

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

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Platforms

windows

Frequently asked questions

How many copies has Captain of Industry sold?: indielist estimates Captain of Industry has sold between 480,690 and 1,121,610 units (median 801,150), derived from its 10,682 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
Who developed Captain of Industry?: Captain of Industry was developed by MaFi Games and published by MaFi Games.
Who published Captain of Industry?: Captain of Industry was published by MaFi Games, developed by MaFi Games. See MaFi Games's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
When was Captain of Industry released?: Captain of Industry was released in 2022.
How many reviews does Captain of Industry have on Steam?: Captain of Industry has 10,682 Steam reviews, of which 90% are positive.
Is Captain of Industry worth playing?: Steam players rate Captain of Industry 90% positive across 10,682 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 Captain of Industry can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Indie titles such as Factory Town, Ancient Cities, Going Medieval, Endzone - A World Apart, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, MaFi Games's other releases and MaFi Games's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Captain of Industry 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 Captain of Industry 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.