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Adventure indie game Pool Cleaning Simulator centers on pool-cleaning work, developed by rubens-games and published by freemind-s-a. Released in 2024 on Steam at $15.99, it has 510 reviews with 66% positive, indicating a mixed-to-positive player response.
Overview
Pool Cleaning Simulator is a 2024 Adventure game developed by Rubens Games and published by FreeMind S.A.. On Steam it has gathered 389 player reviews, 65% of them positive, which counts as a mixed reception among indie titles in the Adventure category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $16. The pairing of developer Rubens Games with publisher FreeMind S.A. 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 27,000 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, Pool Cleaning Simulator can be compared against similar Adventure titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
389
Positive
65%
Steam appid
2165620
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.012K to 27K
units (median: 19K)
≈ $107K to $249K modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2024 | 0 |
| price_$16 | 0 |
| positive_65% | -10 |
| genre_Adventure | +10 |
| final NB | 50 |
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 Pool Cleaning Simulator at roughly 12,000 to 27,000 copies, with a median around 19,000, derived from its 389 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $178K 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
15 observed days · window low $3.99Across 15 observed UTC days from 2026-07-15 to 2026-09-06, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $3.99 to $12.26. The tracked-window low was $3.99 on 2026-08-23.
Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.
Where to buy
Affiliate disclosure- Steam reference -71%$4.63 Buy
- GOG.com -70%$4.79 Buy
- Fanatical -10%$12.31 Buy
- Green Man Gaming
- Humble Store
Latest tracked store observations (2026-09-06 06:18 UTC), cheapest first. Prices may have changed since observation. Some are affiliate links — we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. Learn more.
Platforms
windows
Genres
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Pool Cleaning Simulator sold?
- indielist estimates Pool Cleaning Simulator has sold between 11,670 and 27,230 units (median 19,450), derived from its 389 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Pool Cleaning Simulator?
- Pool Cleaning Simulator was developed by Rubens Games and published by FreeMind S.A..
- Who published Pool Cleaning Simulator?
- Pool Cleaning Simulator was published by FreeMind S.A., developed by Rubens Games. See FreeMind S.A.'s full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was Pool Cleaning Simulator released?
- Pool Cleaning Simulator was released in 2024.
- How many reviews does Pool Cleaning Simulator have on Steam?
- Pool Cleaning Simulator has 389 Steam reviews, of which 65% are positive.
- Is Pool Cleaning Simulator worth playing?
- Steam players rate Pool Cleaning Simulator 65% positive across 389 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 Pool Cleaning Simulator 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, Rubens Games's other releases and FreeMind S.A.'s wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Pool Cleaning Simulator 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 Pool Cleaning Simulator 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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