How many copies has Growbot sold?

indielist estimates Growbot has sold between 6,579 and 15,351 units (median 10,965), derived from its 129 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.

Who published Growbot?

Growbot was published by Application Systems Heidelberg, developed by Wabisabi Play. See Application Systems Heidelberg's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.

How many reviews does Growbot have on Steam?

Growbot has 129 Steam reviews, of which 91% are positive.

Is Growbot worth playing?

Steam players rate Growbot 91% positive across 129 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.

Growbot

Oct 21, 2021 Adventure $19.99

Developer Wabisabi Play Publisher Application Systems Heidelberg

Profile updated Jul 2026

Adventure indie game Growbot focuses on point-and-click style exploration and puzzles. Released in 2021 by wabisabi-play and published by Application Systems Heidelberg, it has 128 Steam reviews with 91% positive, making it a lesser-known hidden gem at $19.99.

Growbot is a 2021 Adventure game developed by Wabisabi Play and published by Application Systems Heidelberg. On Steam it has gathered 129 player reviews, 91% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Adventure category. The game is available on linux, mac, windows, and launched at $20. The pairing of developer Wabisabi Play with publisher Application Systems Heidelberg 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 7,000 to 15,000 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, Growbot can be compared against similar Adventure titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.

Reviews

129

Positive

91%

Steam appid

661680

Engine

Unknown

Players (snapshot)

Unavailable

Sales estimate

v1.0

7K to 15K

units (median: 11K)

≈ $75K to $175K modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)

7K median 15K

+ How is this calculated?

129 reviews × NB(85) = 10,965 median units

Factor	Adjustment
base	+50
year_2021	+15
price_$20	0
positive_91%	+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 Growbot at roughly 7,000 to 15,000 copies, with a median around 11,000, derived from its 129 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $125K 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

12 observed days · window low $11.99

Across 12 observed UTC days from 2026-07-17 to 2026-09-01, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $11.99 to $19.99. The tracked-window low was $11.99 on 2026-07-17.

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

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Platforms

linuxmacwindows

Genres

AdventureIndie

Frequently asked questions

How many copies has Growbot sold?: indielist estimates Growbot has sold between 6,579 and 15,351 units (median 10,965), derived from its 129 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
Who developed Growbot?: Growbot was developed by Wabisabi Play and published by Application Systems Heidelberg.
Who published Growbot?: Growbot was published by Application Systems Heidelberg, developed by Wabisabi Play. See Application Systems Heidelberg's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
When was Growbot released?: Growbot was released in 2021.
How many reviews does Growbot have on Steam?: Growbot has 129 Steam reviews, of which 91% are positive.
Is Growbot worth playing?: Steam players rate Growbot 91% positive across 129 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 Growbot 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, Wabisabi Play's other releases and Application Systems Heidelberg's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Growbot 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 Growbot 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.