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Action indie game ROOT comes from Skunkape Interactive, which is listed as both developer and publisher. Released in 2015, it has 156 Steam reviews marked 0% positive and mixed, with a budget initial price of $4.99.
Overview
ROOT is a 2015 Action game developed by Skunkape Interactive and published by Skunkape Interactive. On Steam it has gathered 160 player reviews, 76% of them positive, which counts as a mostly positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on linux, mac, windows, and launched at $5. The pairing of developer Skunkape Interactive with publisher Skunkape Interactive 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 6,000 to 13,000 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, ROOT can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
160
Positive
76%
Steam appid
393610
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.06K to 13K
units (median: 10K)
≈ $16K to $38K modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2015 | +30 |
| price_$5 | -20 |
| positive_76% | 0 |
| final NB | 60 |
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 ROOT at roughly 6,000 to 13,000 copies, with a median around 10,000, derived from its 160 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $27K 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
5 observed days · window low $2.49Across 5 observed UTC days from 2026-08-09 to 2026-09-06, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $2.49 to $4.99. The tracked-window low was $2.49 on 2026-08-09.
Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.
Where to buy
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- Humble Store
- GOG.com
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Platforms
linuxmacwindows
Genres
ActionIndie
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has ROOT sold?
- indielist estimates ROOT has sold between 5,760 and 13,440 units (median 9,600), derived from its 160 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed ROOT?
- ROOT was developed by Skunkape Interactive and published by Skunkape Interactive.
- Who published ROOT?
- ROOT was published by Skunkape Interactive, developed by Skunkape Interactive. See Skunkape Interactive's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was ROOT released?
- ROOT was released in 2015.
- How many reviews does ROOT have on Steam?
- ROOT has 160 Steam reviews, of which 76% are positive.
- Is ROOT worth playing?
- Steam players rate ROOT 76% positive across 160 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 ROOT can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Action titles such as Terraria, Rust, Phasmophobia, The Forest, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Skunkape Interactive's other releases and Skunkape Interactive's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where ROOT 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 ROOT 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.
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