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Casual gameplay anchors Ratropolis, a 2020 release developed and published by cassel-games. On Steam it has 5,499 reviews with 88% positive sentiment, rated Very Positive, and launched at an initial price of $17.99.
Overview
Ratropolis is a 2020 Casual game developed by Cassel Games and published by Cassel Games. On Steam it has gathered 5,149 player reviews, 88% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Casual category. The game is available on mac, windows, and launched at $18. The pairing of developer Cassel Games with publisher Cassel Games 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 185,000 to 433,000 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, Ratropolis can be compared against similar Casual titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
5,149
Positive
88%
Steam appid
1108370
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.0185K to 433K
units (median: 309K)
≈ $1.9M to $4.4M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2020 | +15 |
| price_$18 | 0 |
| positive_88% | +10 |
| genre_Casual | -15 |
| 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 Ratropolis at roughly 185,000 to 433,000 copies, with a median around 309,000, derived from its 5,149 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $3.2M 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
16 observed days · window low $17.99Across 16 observed UTC days from 2026-06-09 to 2026-07-22, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $17.99 to $17.99. The tracked-window low was $17.99 on 2026-06-09.
Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.
Where to buy
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- Green Man Gaming
- Fanatical
- Humble Store
- GOG.com
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Platforms
macwindows
Genres
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Ratropolis sold?
- indielist estimates Ratropolis has sold between 185,364 and 432,516 units (median 308,940), derived from its 5,149 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Ratropolis?
- Ratropolis was developed by Cassel Games and published by Cassel Games.
- Who published Ratropolis?
- Ratropolis was published by Cassel Games, developed by Cassel Games. See Cassel Games's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was Ratropolis released?
- Ratropolis was released in 2020.
- How many reviews does Ratropolis have on Steam?
- Ratropolis has 5,149 Steam reviews, of which 88% are positive.
- Is Ratropolis worth playing?
- Steam players rate Ratropolis 88% positive across 5,149 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 Ratropolis 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, Cassel Games's other releases and Cassel Games's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Ratropolis 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 Ratropolis 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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