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RimWorld, released in 2018, is an indie colony simulation game. It boasts over 116,000 Steam reviews with a 97% positive rating. This title was self-published.
Overview
RimWorld is a 2018 Indie game developed by Ludeon Studios and published by Ludeon Studios. On Steam it has gathered 203,546 player reviews, 98% of them positive, which counts as a overwhelmingly positive reception among indie titles in the Indie category. The game is available on linux, mac, windows, and launched at $35. The pairing of developer Ludeon Studios with publisher Ludeon Studios 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 model estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 11.0 million to 25.6 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, RimWorld can be compared against similar Indie titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
203,546
Positive
98%
Steam appid
294100
Engine
n/a
Sales estimate
vv1.011.0M to 25.6M
units (median: 18.3M)
≈ $219.7M to $512.6M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for RimWorld at roughly 11.0 million to 25.6 million copies, with a median around 18.3 million, derived from its 203,546 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter model (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $366.1M 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 $21.45Over the last 90 days the price ranged from $21.45 to $34.99, averaging $32.65 across 3 discount windows, with a historical low of $21.45 on 2026-04-06.
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Where to buy
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Platforms
linuxmacwindows
Tags
Colony SimBase-BuildingSurvivalStrategySandboxManagementBuildingSimulationModdableSingleplayerCity BuilderOpen WorldProcedural Generation2DSci-fiIndieSpaceTactical RPGCartoonyWestern
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has RimWorld sold?
- indielist estimates RimWorld has sold between 10,991,484 and 25,646,796 units (median 18,319,140), derived from its 203,546 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter vv1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed RimWorld?
- RimWorld was developed by Ludeon Studios and published by Ludeon Studios.
- When was RimWorld released?
- RimWorld was released in 2018.
- How many reviews does RimWorld have on Steam?
- RimWorld has 203,546 Steam reviews, of which 98% are positive.
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has RimWorld sold?
- indielist estimates RimWorld has sold between 10,991,484 and 25,646,796 units (median 18,319,140), derived from its 203,546 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter vv1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed RimWorld?
- RimWorld was developed by Ludeon Studios and published by Ludeon Studios.
- When was RimWorld released?
- RimWorld was released in 2018.
- How many reviews does RimWorld have on Steam?
- RimWorld has 203,546 Steam reviews, of which 98% are positive.
Ecosystem
Players looking for games like RimWorld can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Indie titles such as Terraria, Garry's Mod, Phasmophobia, No Man's Sky, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Ludeon Studios's other releases and Ludeon Studios's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where RimWorld 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 RimWorld 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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