CraftCraft: Fantasy Merchant Simulator
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A casual fantasy merchant simulator indie game, CraftCraft focuses on shopkeeping and crafting-themed play. Released in 2025 by developer and publisher placeholder-gameworks, it has 562 Steam reviews at 82% positive and launched at $15.99.
Overview
CraftCraft: Fantasy Merchant Simulator is a 2025 Casual game developed by Placeholder Gameworks and published by Placeholder Gameworks. On Steam it has gathered 526 player reviews, 82% of them positive, which counts as a mostly positive reception among indie titles in the Casual category. The game is available on mac, windows, and launched at $16. The pairing of developer Placeholder Gameworks with publisher Placeholder Gameworks is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Casual projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 8,000 to 18,000 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, CraftCraft: Fantasy Merchant Simulator can be compared against similar Casual titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
526
Positive
82%
Steam appid
2226430
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.08K to 18K
units (median: 13K)
≈ $72K to $168K modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2025 | -10 |
| price_$16 | 0 |
| positive_82% | 0 |
| genre_Casual | -15 |
| final NB | 25 |
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 CraftCraft: Fantasy Merchant Simulator at roughly 8,000 to 18,000 copies, with a median around 13,000, derived from its 526 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $120K 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
12 observed days · window low $11.19Across 12 observed UTC days from 2026-06-03 to 2026-07-22, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $11.19 to $11.65. The tracked-window low was $11.19 on 2026-07-15.
Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.
Where to buy
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Platforms
macwindows
Genres
CasualIndieRPGSimulation
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has CraftCraft: Fantasy Merchant Simulator sold?
- indielist estimates CraftCraft: Fantasy Merchant Simulator has sold between 7,890 and 18,410 units (median 13,150), derived from its 526 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed CraftCraft: Fantasy Merchant Simulator?
- CraftCraft: Fantasy Merchant Simulator was developed by Placeholder Gameworks and published by Placeholder Gameworks.
- Who published CraftCraft: Fantasy Merchant Simulator?
- CraftCraft: Fantasy Merchant Simulator was published by Placeholder Gameworks, developed by Placeholder Gameworks. See Placeholder Gameworks's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was CraftCraft: Fantasy Merchant Simulator released?
- CraftCraft: Fantasy Merchant Simulator was released in 2025.
- How many reviews does CraftCraft: Fantasy Merchant Simulator have on Steam?
- CraftCraft: Fantasy Merchant Simulator has 526 Steam reviews, of which 82% are positive.
- Is CraftCraft: Fantasy Merchant Simulator worth playing?
- Steam players rate CraftCraft: Fantasy Merchant Simulator 82% positive across 526 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 CraftCraft: Fantasy Merchant Simulator can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Casual titles such as Garry's Mod, Wallpaper Engine, Factorio, Balatro, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Placeholder Gameworks's other releases and Placeholder Gameworks's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where CraftCraft: Fantasy Merchant Simulator 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 CraftCraft: Fantasy Merchant Simulator page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Casual 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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