How many copies has RPG Tycoon sold?

indielist estimates RPG Tycoon has sold between 18,450 and 43,050 units (median 30,750), derived from its 410 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.

Who published RPG Tycoon?

RPG Tycoon was published by Macrocosmic Software, developed by Skatanic Studios. See Macrocosmic Software's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.

When was RPG Tycoon released?

RPG Tycoon was released in 2016.

How many reviews does RPG Tycoon have on Steam?

RPG Tycoon has 410 Steam reviews, of which 50% are positive.

Is RPG Tycoon worth playing?

Steam players rate RPG Tycoon 50% positive across 410 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.

RPG Tycoon

Feb 12, 2016 Adventure $9.99

Developer Skatanic Studios Publisher Macrocosmic Software

Profile updated Aug 2026

Adventure indie game RPG Tycoon uses its RPG/tycoon premise within a 2016 release from skatanic-studios. Published by macrocosmic-software, it is listed at $11.99 and has 411 Steam reviews, shown as 0% positive with a mixed rating.

RPG Tycoon is a 2016 Adventure game developed by Skatanic Studios and published by Macrocosmic Software. On Steam it has gathered 410 player reviews, 50% of them positive, which counts as a mixed reception among indie titles in the Adventure category. The game is available on mac, windows, and launched at $10. The pairing of developer Skatanic Studios with publisher Macrocosmic Software 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 18,000 to 43,000 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, RPG Tycoon can be compared against similar Adventure titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.

Reviews

410

Positive

50%

Steam appid

314240

Engine

Unknown

Players (snapshot)

Unavailable

Sales estimate

v1.0

18K to 43K

units (median: 31K)

≈ $105K to $246K modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)

18K median 43K

+ How is this calculated?

410 reviews × NB(75) = 30,750 median units

Factor	Adjustment
base	+50
year_2016	+30
price_$10	-5
positive_50%	-10
genre_Adventure	+10
final NB	75

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 RPG Tycoon at roughly 18,000 to 43,000 copies, with a median around 31,000, derived from its 410 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $175K 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

4 observed days · window low $4.99

Across 4 observed UTC days from 2026-08-14 to 2026-09-04, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $4.99 to $9.99. The tracked-window low was $4.99 on 2026-08-14.

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

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Platforms

macwindows

Genres

AdventureIndieRPG Simulation Strategy

Frequently asked questions

How many copies has RPG Tycoon sold?: indielist estimates RPG Tycoon has sold between 18,450 and 43,050 units (median 30,750), derived from its 410 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
Who developed RPG Tycoon?: RPG Tycoon was developed by Skatanic Studios and published by Macrocosmic Software.
Who published RPG Tycoon?: RPG Tycoon was published by Macrocosmic Software, developed by Skatanic Studios. See Macrocosmic Software's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
When was RPG Tycoon released?: RPG Tycoon was released in 2016.
How many reviews does RPG Tycoon have on Steam?: RPG Tycoon has 410 Steam reviews, of which 50% are positive.
Is RPG Tycoon worth playing?: Steam players rate RPG Tycoon 50% positive across 410 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.

Players looking for games like RPG Tycoon 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, Skatanic Studios's other releases and Macrocosmic Software's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where RPG Tycoon 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 RPG Tycoon 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.

Matched from shared Steam tags and primary genre. Review count breaks ties; it is not a personal recommendation score.