How many copies has Carto sold?

indielist estimates Carto has sold between 369,138 and 861,322 units (median 615,230), derived from its 7,238 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.

Carto was developed by Sunhead Games and published by Balor Games.

Carto was published by Balor Games, developed by Sunhead Games. See Balor Games's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.

How many reviews does Carto have on Steam?

Carto has 7,238 Steam reviews, of which 96% are positive.

Is Carto worth playing?

Steam players rate Carto 96% positive across 7,238 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.

Carto

Oct 27, 2020 Adventure $19.99

Developer Sunhead Games Publisher Balor Games

Profile updated Jun 2026

This adventure puzzle game lets players rearrange map pieces to explore a charming world. Released in 2020, Carto boasts 9,231 Steam reviews with 96% positive ratings. Sunhead Games developed and Balor Games published this title.

Carto is a 2020 Adventure game developed by Sunhead Games and published by Balor Games. On Steam it has gathered 7,238 player reviews, 96% of them positive, which counts as a overwhelmingly positive reception among indie titles in the Adventure category. The game is available on mac, windows, and launched at $20. The pairing of developer Sunhead Games with publisher Balor Games is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Adventure projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 369,000 to 861,000 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, Carto can be compared against similar Adventure titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.

Reviews

7,238

Positive

96%

Steam appid

1172450

Engine

Unknown

Players (snapshot)

Unavailable

Sales estimate

v1.0

369K to 861K

units (median: 615K)

≈ $4.2M to $9.8M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)

369K median 861K

+ How is this calculated?

7,238 reviews × NB(85) = 615,230 median units

Factor	Adjustment
base	+50
year_2020	+15
price_$20	0
positive_96%	+10
genre_Adventure	+10
final NB	85

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 Carto at roughly 369,000 to 861,000 copies, with a median around 615,000, derived from its 7,238 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $7.0M 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

51 observed days · window low $5.97

Across 51 observed UTC days from 2026-06-03 to 2026-07-28, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $5.97 to $19.99. The tracked-window low was $5.97 on 2026-06-26.

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Platforms

macwindows

Frequently asked questions

How many copies has Carto sold?: indielist estimates Carto has sold between 369,138 and 861,322 units (median 615,230), derived from its 7,238 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
Who developed Carto?: Carto was developed by Sunhead Games and published by Balor Games.
Who published Carto?: Carto was published by Balor Games, developed by Sunhead Games. See Balor Games's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
When was Carto released?: Carto was released in 2020.
How many reviews does Carto have on Steam?: Carto has 7,238 Steam reviews, of which 96% are positive.
Is Carto worth playing?: Steam players rate Carto 96% positive across 7,238 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 Carto can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Adventure titles such as Lost in Play, GRIS, Creaks, A Short Hike, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Sunhead Games's other releases and Balor Games's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Carto 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 Carto page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Adventure 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.