How many copies has Rusty Lake: Roots sold?

indielist estimates Rusty Lake: Roots has sold between 401,136 and 935,984 units (median 668,560), derived from its 8,357 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.

Who developed Rusty Lake: Roots?

Rusty Lake: Roots was developed by Rusty Lake and published by Rusty Lake.

Who published Rusty Lake: Roots?

Rusty Lake: Roots was published by Rusty Lake, developed by Rusty Lake. See Rusty Lake's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.

When was Rusty Lake: Roots released?

Rusty Lake: Roots was released in 2016.

How many reviews does Rusty Lake: Roots have on Steam?

Rusty Lake: Roots has 8,357 Steam reviews, of which 97% are positive.

Is Rusty Lake: Roots worth playing?

Steam players rate Rusty Lake: Roots 97% positive across 8,357 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.

Rusty Lake: Roots

Oct 20, 2016 Adventure $3.99

Developer Rusty Lake Publisher Rusty Lake

Profile updated Jun 2026

Adventure-focused play defines Rusty Lake: Roots, developed and published by Rusty Lake. The 2016 release has 8,762 Steam reviews with 97% positive sentiment, and launched at an initial price of $3.99.

Rusty Lake: Roots is a 2016 Adventure game developed by Rusty Lake and published by Rusty Lake. On Steam it has gathered 8,357 player reviews, 97% of them positive, which counts as a overwhelmingly positive reception among indie titles in the Adventure category. The game is available on mac, windows, and launched at $4. The pairing of developer Rusty Lake with publisher Rusty Lake 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 401,000 to 936,000 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, Rusty Lake: Roots can be compared against similar Adventure titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.

Reviews

8,357

Positive

97%

Steam appid

532110

Engine

Unknown

Players (snapshot)

Unavailable

Sales estimate

v1.0

401K to 936K

units (median: 669K)

≈ $914K to $2.1M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)

401K median 936K

+ How is this calculated?

8,357 reviews × NB(80) = 668,560 median units

Factor	Adjustment
base	+50
year_2016	+30
price_$4	-20
positive_97%	+10
genre_Adventure	+10
final NB	80

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 Rusty Lake: Roots at roughly 401,000 to 936,000 copies, with a median around 669,000, derived from its 8,357 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $1.5M 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

50 observed days · window low $0.99

Across 50 observed UTC days from 2026-06-10 to 2026-09-04, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $0.99 to $2.99. The tracked-window low was $0.99 on 2026-06-10.

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

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Platforms

macwindows

Genres

AdventureIndie

Frequently asked questions

How many copies has Rusty Lake: Roots sold?: indielist estimates Rusty Lake: Roots has sold between 401,136 and 935,984 units (median 668,560), derived from its 8,357 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
Who developed Rusty Lake: Roots?: Rusty Lake: Roots was developed by Rusty Lake and published by Rusty Lake.
Who published Rusty Lake: Roots?: Rusty Lake: Roots was published by Rusty Lake, developed by Rusty Lake. See Rusty Lake's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
When was Rusty Lake: Roots released?: Rusty Lake: Roots was released in 2016.
How many reviews does Rusty Lake: Roots have on Steam?: Rusty Lake: Roots has 8,357 Steam reviews, of which 97% are positive.
Is Rusty Lake: Roots worth playing?: Steam players rate Rusty Lake: Roots 97% positive across 8,357 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 Rusty Lake: Roots 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, Rusty Lake's other releases and Rusty Lake's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Rusty Lake: Roots 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 Rusty Lake: Roots 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.