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Strategy-focused indie game from Spiderweb Software, with the studio serving as both developer and publisher. Released in 2001, Geneforge 1 has 395 Steam reviews at 92% positive. Initial price is $19.99.
Overview
Geneforge 1 is a 2001 Strategy game developed by Spiderweb Software and published by Spiderweb Software. On Steam it has gathered 324 player reviews, 92% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Strategy category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $20. The pairing of developer Spiderweb Software with publisher Spiderweb Software is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Strategy projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 17,000 to 41,000 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, Geneforge 1 can be compared against similar Strategy titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
324
Positive
92%
Steam appid
200960
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.017K to 41K
units (median: 29K)
≈ $200K to $466K modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2001 | +30 |
| price_$20 | 0 |
| positive_92% | +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 Geneforge 1 at roughly 17,000 to 41,000 copies, with a median around 29,000, derived from its 324 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $333K 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
No tracked store price observations are available for this game in the last 90 days.
Where to buy
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- Green Man Gaming
- Fanatical
- Humble Store
- GOG.com
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Platforms
windows
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Geneforge 1 sold?
- indielist estimates Geneforge 1 has sold between 17,496 and 40,824 units (median 29,160), derived from its 324 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Geneforge 1?
- Geneforge 1 was developed by Spiderweb Software and published by Spiderweb Software.
- Who published Geneforge 1?
- Geneforge 1 was published by Spiderweb Software, developed by Spiderweb Software. See Spiderweb Software's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was Geneforge 1 released?
- Geneforge 1 was released in 2001.
- How many reviews does Geneforge 1 have on Steam?
- Geneforge 1 has 324 Steam reviews, of which 92% are positive.
- Is Geneforge 1 worth playing?
- Steam players rate Geneforge 1 92% positive across 324 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 Geneforge 1 can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Strategy titles such as Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition, Backpack Battles, Cubic Cosmos, Fieldrunners, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Spiderweb Software's other releases and Spiderweb Software's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Geneforge 1 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 Geneforge 1 page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Strategy 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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