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Rats, Bats, and Bones

Oct 28, 2019 Indie $4.99
Developer Smallfry Games Publisher Smallfry Games
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For budget indie game buyers, Rats, Bats, and Bones launched in 2019 at an initial price of $4.99. Developed and self-published by smallfry-games, it has 99 Steam reviews with 90% positive feedback, earning a Very Positive rating from a modest review base.

Overview

Rats, Bats, and Bones is a 2019 Indie game developed by Smallfry Games and published by Smallfry Games. On Steam it has gathered 99 player reviews, 90% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Indie category. The game is available on linux, mac, windows, and launched at $5. The pairing of developer Smallfry Games with publisher Smallfry Games is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Indie projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 3,000 to 8,000 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, Rats, Bats, and Bones can be compared against similar Indie titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.

Reviews

99

Positive

90%

Steam appid

845690

Engine

Unknown

Players (snapshot)

Unavailable

Sales estimate

v1.0

3K to 8K

units (median: 5K)

≈ $9K to $22K modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)

3K median 8K
+ How is this calculated?
99 reviews × NB(55) = 5,445 median units
Factor Adjustment
base +50
year_2019 +15
price_$5 -20
positive_90% +10
final NB 55

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 Rats, Bats, and Bones at roughly 3,000 to 8,000 copies, with a median around 5,000, derived from its 99 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $16K 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 $4.99

Across 12 observed UTC days from 2026-08-06 to 2026-10-22, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $4.99 to $4.99. The tracked-window low was $4.99 on 2026-08-06.

$3 $5 $6 08-0608-2009-0309-2410-0810-22 2026-08-06: $4.99 2026-08-13: $4.99 2026-08-20: $4.99 2026-08-27: $4.99 2026-09-03: $4.99 2026-09-10: $4.99 2026-09-17: $4.99 2026-09-24: $4.99 2026-10-01: $4.99 2026-10-08: $4.99 2026-10-15: $4.99 2026-10-22: $4.99 2026-08-06: $4.99 (tracked-window low) 2026-08-13: $4.99 (tracked-window low) 2026-08-20: $4.99 (tracked-window low) 2026-08-27: $4.99 (tracked-window low) 2026-09-03: $4.99 (tracked-window low) 2026-09-10: $4.99 (tracked-window low) 2026-09-17: $4.99 (tracked-window low) 2026-09-24: $4.99 (tracked-window low) 2026-10-01: $4.99 (tracked-window low) 2026-10-08: $4.99 (tracked-window low) 2026-10-15: $4.99 (tracked-window low) 2026-10-22: $4.99 (tracked-window low) Tracked-window low: $4.99 on 2026-08-06

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

Where to buy

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Platforms

linuxmacwindows

Genres

IndieStrategy

Frequently asked questions

How many copies has Rats, Bats, and Bones sold?
indielist estimates Rats, Bats, and Bones has sold between 3,267 and 7,623 units (median 5,445), derived from its 99 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
Who developed Rats, Bats, and Bones?
Rats, Bats, and Bones was developed by Smallfry Games and published by Smallfry Games.
Who published Rats, Bats, and Bones?
Rats, Bats, and Bones was published by Smallfry Games, developed by Smallfry Games. See Smallfry Games's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
When was Rats, Bats, and Bones released?
Rats, Bats, and Bones was released in 2019.
How many reviews does Rats, Bats, and Bones have on Steam?
Rats, Bats, and Bones has 99 Steam reviews, of which 90% are positive.
Is Rats, Bats, and Bones worth playing?
Steam players rate Rats, Bats, and Bones 90% positive across 99 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 Rats, Bats, and Bones can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Indie titles such as Stardew Valley, Euro Truck Simulator 2, Project Zomboid, Undertale, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Smallfry Games's other releases and Smallfry Games's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Rats, Bats, and Bones 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 Rats, Bats, and Bones page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Indie 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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