Planet Coaster
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Action indie game listing for Planet Coaster, a 2016 release from Frontier Developments. It has 59,491 Steam reviews with 91% positive sentiment, published by Frontier Developments, with an initial price of $44.99.
Overview
Planet Coaster is a 2016 Action game developed by Frontier Developments and published by Frontier Developments. On Steam it has gathered 59,492 player reviews, 91% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on mac, windows, and launched at $45. The pairing of developer Frontier Developments with publisher Frontier Developments is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Action projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 3.7 million to 8.7 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, Planet Coaster can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
59,492
Positive
91%
Steam appid
493340
Engine
Unknown
Sales estimate
vv1.03.7M to 8.7M
units (median: 6.2M)
≈ $96.3M to $224.7M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2016 | +30 |
| price_$45 | +15 |
| positive_91% | +10 |
| final NB | 105 |
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 Planet Coaster at roughly 3.7 million to 8.7 million copies, with a median around 6.2 million, derived from its 59,492 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $160.5M 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 $25.56Over the last 90 days the price ranged from $25.56 to $44.99, averaging $42.44 across 2 discount windows, with a historical low of $25.56 on 2026-03-30.
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Where to buy
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- Steam reference$44.99 Buy
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- Humble Store$44.99 Buy
- GOG.com
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Platforms
macwindows
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Planet Coaster sold?
- indielist estimates Planet Coaster has sold between 3,747,996 and 8,745,324 units (median 6,246,660), derived from its 59,492 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter vv1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Planet Coaster?
- Planet Coaster was developed by Frontier Developments and published by Frontier Developments.
- When was Planet Coaster released?
- Planet Coaster was released in 2016.
- How many reviews does Planet Coaster have on Steam?
- Planet Coaster has 59,492 Steam reviews, of which 91% are positive.
Ecosystem
indielist positions Planet Coaster within the Action segment so players can surface comparable titles by shared tags and genre rather than by storefront promotion. On the developer side, Frontier Developments's other releases and Frontier Developments's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Planet Coaster 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 Planet Coaster page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Action 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.