How many copies has Grotto sold?

indielist estimates Grotto has sold between 12,393 and 28,917 units (median 20,655), derived from its 243 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.

Who developed Grotto?

Grotto was developed by Brainwash Gang and published by Digerati.

Who published Grotto?

Grotto was published by Digerati, developed by Brainwash Gang. See Digerati's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.

How many reviews does Grotto have on Steam?

Grotto has 243 Steam reviews, of which 90% are positive.

Is Grotto worth playing?

Steam players rate Grotto 90% positive across 243 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.

Grotto

Oct 26, 2021 Adventure $12.99

Developer Brainwash Gang Publisher Digerati

Profile updated Jul 2026

Adventure indie game Grotto pairs a 2021 release with a modest Steam footprint: 240 reviews and 90% positive, suggesting a hidden gem for players browsing smaller narrative releases. Developed by brainwash-gang and published by digerati, it launched at $12.99.

Grotto is a 2021 Adventure game developed by Brainwash Gang and published by Digerati. On Steam it has gathered 243 player reviews, 90% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Adventure category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $13. The pairing of developer Brainwash Gang with publisher Digerati 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 12,000 to 29,000 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, Grotto can be compared against similar Adventure titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.

Reviews

243

Positive

90%

Steam appid

1538850

Engine

Unknown

Players (snapshot)

Unavailable

Sales estimate

v1.0

12K to 29K

units (median: 21K)

≈ $92K to $215K modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)

12K median 29K

+ How is this calculated?

243 reviews × NB(85) = 20,655 median units

Factor	Adjustment
base	+50
year_2021	+15
price_$13	0
positive_90%	+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 Grotto at roughly 12,000 to 29,000 copies, with a median around 21,000, derived from its 243 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $153K 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

10 observed days · window low $2.75

Across 10 observed UTC days from 2026-07-20 to 2026-09-07, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $2.75 to $12.99. The tracked-window low was $2.75 on 2026-07-20.

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

Where to buy

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Platforms

windows

Genres

AdventureIndie

Frequently asked questions

How many copies has Grotto sold?: indielist estimates Grotto has sold between 12,393 and 28,917 units (median 20,655), derived from its 243 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
Who developed Grotto?: Grotto was developed by Brainwash Gang and published by Digerati.
Who published Grotto?: Grotto was published by Digerati, developed by Brainwash Gang. See Digerati's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
When was Grotto released?: Grotto was released in 2021.
How many reviews does Grotto have on Steam?: Grotto has 243 Steam reviews, of which 90% are positive.
Is Grotto worth playing?: Steam players rate Grotto 90% positive across 243 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 Grotto can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Adventure titles such as Subnautica, Raft, Satisfactory, Human Fall Flat, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Brainwash Gang's other releases and Digerati's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Grotto 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 Grotto 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.