Pesterquest
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Adventure visual novel RPG built around story-rich indie game choices and character-driven progression. Released in 2019, Pesterquest has 1,545 Steam reviews with 90% positive sentiment, published by Fellow Traveller and developed by What Pumpkin Games Inc.
Overview
Pesterquest is a 2019 Adventure game developed by What Pumpkin Games, Inc. and published by Fellow Traveller. On Steam it has gathered 1,560 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 linux, mac, windows, and launched at $12. The pairing of developer What Pumpkin Games, Inc. with publisher Fellow Traveller 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 80,000 to 186,000 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, Pesterquest can be compared against similar Adventure titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
1,560
Positive
90%
Steam appid
1144030
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.080K to 186K
units (median: 133K)
≈ $545K to $1.3M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2019 | +15 |
| price_$12 | 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 Pesterquest at roughly 80,000 to 186,000 copies, with a median around 133,000, derived from its 1,560 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $908K 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
14 observed days · window low $1.79Across 14 observed UTC days from 2026-06-03 to 2026-07-22, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $1.79 to $1.79. The tracked-window low was $1.79 on 2026-06-03.
Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.
Where to buy
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Platforms
linuxmacwindows
Tags
IndieAdventureRPGVisual NovelStory RichTime TravelComedyLGBTQ+FunnySci-fiGreat SoundtrackAnime
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Pesterquest sold?
- indielist estimates Pesterquest has sold between 79,560 and 185,640 units (median 132,600), derived from its 1,560 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Pesterquest?
- Pesterquest was developed by What Pumpkin Games, Inc. and published by Fellow Traveller.
- Who published Pesterquest?
- Pesterquest was published by Fellow Traveller, developed by What Pumpkin Games, Inc.. See Fellow Traveller's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was Pesterquest released?
- Pesterquest was released in 2019.
- How many reviews does Pesterquest have on Steam?
- Pesterquest has 1,560 Steam reviews, of which 90% are positive.
- Is Pesterquest worth playing?
- Steam players rate Pesterquest 90% positive across 1,560 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 Pesterquest can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Adventure titles such as GNOSIA, LoveChoice, There Is No Game: Wrong Dimension, West of Loathing, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, What Pumpkin Games, Inc.'s other releases and Fellow Traveller's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Pesterquest 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 Pesterquest 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.
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