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Root is a 2020 indie strategy simulation game. It has garnered 4,805 Steam reviews. Publisher and developer attribution is not yet imported.
Overview
Root is a 2020 Indie game developed by Dire Wolf and published by Dire Wolf. On Steam it has gathered 5,323 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 mac, windows, and launched at $15. The pairing of developer Dire Wolf with publisher Dire Wolf 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 240,000 to 559,000 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 Indie titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
5,323
Positive
90%
Steam appid
965580
Engine
n/a
Sales estimate
vv1.0240K to 559K
units (median: 399K)
≈ $2.1M to $4.8M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for Root at roughly 240,000 to 559,000 copies, with a median around 399,000, derived from its 5,323 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter model (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $3.4M 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 $8.67Over the last 90 days the price ranged from $8.67 to $14.99, averaging $14.06 across 2 discount windows, with a historical low of $8.67 on 2026-05-05.
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Where to buy
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Platforms
macwindows
Tags
Board GameTabletopStrategyWarWargameCuteIndieTurn-Based StrategySimulationPvPMultiplayerSingleplayerTouch-FriendlyAsynchronous MultiplayerCard GamePuzzleSolitaireEarly AccessTop-DownCartoony
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Root sold?
- indielist estimates Root has sold between 239,535 and 558,915 units (median 399,225), derived from its 5,323 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter vv1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Root?
- Root was developed by Dire Wolf and published by Dire Wolf.
- When was Root released?
- Root was released in 2020.
- How many reviews does Root have on Steam?
- Root has 5,323 Steam reviews, of which 90% are positive.
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Root sold?
- indielist estimates Root has sold between 239,535 and 558,915 units (median 399,225), derived from its 5,323 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter vv1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Root?
- Root was developed by Dire Wolf and published by Dire Wolf.
- When was Root released?
- Root was released in 2020.
- How many reviews does Root have on Steam?
- Root has 5,323 Steam reviews, of which 90% are positive.
Ecosystem
indielist positions Root within the Indie segment so players can surface comparable titles by shared tags and genre rather than by storefront promotion. On the developer side, Dire Wolf's other releases and Dire Wolf'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 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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