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Railroads & Catacombs

Jun 6, 2025 Adventure $19.99
Developer MadRails Publisher IndieArk
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Adventure indie game Railroads & Catacombs comes from developer madrails and publisher indieark. Released in 2025, it lists 350 Steam reviews at 0% positive with a Mixed label, and launched at an initial price of $19.99.

Overview

Railroads & Catacombs is a 2025 Adventure game developed by MadRails and published by IndieArk. On Steam it has gathered 352 player reviews, 78% of them positive, which counts as a mostly positive reception among indie titles in the Adventure category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $20. The pairing of developer MadRails with publisher IndieArk 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 11,000 to 25,000 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, Railroads & Catacombs can be compared against similar Adventure titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.

Reviews

352

Positive

78%

Steam appid

1156060

Engine

Unknown

Players (snapshot)

Unavailable

Sales estimate

v1.0

11K to 25K

units (median: 18K)

≈ $121K to $281K modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)

11K median 25K
+ How is this calculated?
352 reviews × NB(50) = 17,600 median units
Factor Adjustment
base +50
year_2025 -10
price_$20 0
positive_78% 0
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 Railroads & Catacombs at roughly 11,000 to 25,000 copies, with a median around 18,000, derived from its 352 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $201K 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

7 observed days · window low $19.99

Across 7 observed UTC days from 2026-07-15 to 2026-07-22, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $19.99 to $19.99. The tracked-window low was $19.99 on 2026-07-15.

$17 $19 $22 07-1507-1607-1707-2007-2107-22 2026-07-15: $19.99 2026-07-16: $19.99 2026-07-17: $19.99 2026-07-19: $19.99 2026-07-20: $19.99 2026-07-21: $19.99 2026-07-22: $19.99 2026-07-15: $19.99 (tracked-window low) 2026-07-16: $19.99 (tracked-window low) 2026-07-17: $19.99 (tracked-window low) 2026-07-19: $19.99 (tracked-window low) 2026-07-20: $19.99 (tracked-window low) 2026-07-21: $19.99 (tracked-window low) 2026-07-22: $19.99 (tracked-window low) Tracked-window low: $19.99 on 2026-07-15

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

AdventureIndieRPGStrategy

Frequently asked questions

How many copies has Railroads & Catacombs sold?
indielist estimates Railroads & Catacombs has sold between 10,560 and 24,640 units (median 17,600), derived from its 352 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
Who developed Railroads & Catacombs?
Railroads & Catacombs was developed by MadRails and published by IndieArk.
Who published Railroads & Catacombs?
Railroads & Catacombs was published by IndieArk, developed by MadRails. See IndieArk's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
When was Railroads & Catacombs released?
Railroads & Catacombs was released in 2025.
How many reviews does Railroads & Catacombs have on Steam?
Railroads & Catacombs has 352 Steam reviews, of which 78% are positive.
Is Railroads & Catacombs worth playing?
Steam players rate Railroads & Catacombs 78% positive across 352 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 Railroads & Catacombs 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, MadRails's other releases and IndieArk's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Railroads & Catacombs 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 Railroads & Catacombs 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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