Empires of the Undergrowth
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Simulation indie game Empires of the Undergrowth centers on ant-colony management and underground expansion. Released in 2024 by developer slug-disco and publisher Hooded Horse, it has 18,051 Steam reviews at 94% positive and launched at $29.99.
Overview
Empires of the Undergrowth is a 2024 Simulation game developed by Slug Disco and published by Hooded Horse. On Steam it has gathered 18,064 player reviews, 94% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Simulation category. The game is available on mac, windows, and launched at $30. The pairing of developer Slug Disco with publisher Hooded Horse is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Simulation projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 704,000 to 1.6 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, Empires of the Undergrowth can be compared against similar Simulation titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
18,064
Positive
94%
Steam appid
463530
Engine
Unknown
Sales estimate
vv1.0704K to 1.6M
units (median: 1.2M)
≈ $12.1M to $28.2M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2024 | 0 |
| price_$30 | +5 |
| positive_94% | +10 |
| final NB | 65 |
Confidence range: median × [0.6, 1.4]. Boundary protection: NB ∈ [15, 150].
Methodology & limitations
Sales estimates use a multi-factor Boxleiter method against public Steam review counts.
They are not authoritative sales data. Actual sales can deviate by
±50% in either direction. Free-to-play games, deeply discounted titles, and games
with heavy bundle distribution have larger error margins. Algorithm version
v1.0.
indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for Empires of the Undergrowth at roughly 704,000 to 1.6 million copies, with a median around 1.2 million, derived from its 18,064 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $20.1M 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
90d · low $15.07Over the last 90 days the price ranged from $15.07 to $29.99, averaging $27.95 across 3 discount windows, with a historical low of $15.07 on 2026-04-19.
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Where to buy
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- Steam reference$29.99 Buy
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- Humble Store$29.99 Buy
- Fanatical$34.71 Buy
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Platforms
macwindows
Genres
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Empires of the Undergrowth sold?
- indielist estimates Empires of the Undergrowth has sold between 704,496 and 1,643,824 units (median 1,174,160), derived from its 18,064 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter vv1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Empires of the Undergrowth?
- Empires of the Undergrowth was developed by Slug Disco and published by Hooded Horse.
- When was Empires of the Undergrowth released?
- Empires of the Undergrowth was released in 2024.
- How many reviews does Empires of the Undergrowth have on Steam?
- Empires of the Undergrowth has 18,064 Steam reviews, of which 94% are positive.
Ecosystem
indielist positions Empires of the Undergrowth within the Simulation segment so players can surface comparable titles by shared tags and genre rather than by storefront promotion. On the developer side, Slug Disco's other releases and Hooded Horse's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Empires of the Undergrowth 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 Empires of the Undergrowth page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Simulation 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.