How many copies has World of Goo sold?

indielist estimates World of Goo has sold between 259,578 and 605,682 units (median 432,630), derived from its 4,807 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.

Who developed World of Goo?

World of Goo was developed by 2D BOY and published by 2D BOY.

Who published World of Goo?

World of Goo was published by 2D BOY, developed by 2D BOY. See 2D BOY's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.

When was World of Goo released?

World of Goo was released in 2008.

How many reviews does World of Goo have on Steam?

World of Goo has 4,807 Steam reviews, of which 94% are positive.

Is World of Goo worth playing?

Steam players rate World of Goo 94% positive across 4,807 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.

World of Goo

Oct 13, 2008 Indie $14.99

Developer 2D BOY Publisher 2D BOY

Profile updated Jun 2026

Physics-based puzzle design drives World of Goo, a singleplayer indie game built around constructing structures from goo balls. Released in 2008 by developer and publisher 2D Boy, it has 6,523 Steam reviews with a 94% positive rating and launched at $14.99.

World of Goo is a 2008 Indie game developed by 2D BOY and published by 2D BOY. On Steam it has gathered 4,807 player reviews, 94% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Indie category. The game is available on linux, mac, windows, and launched at $15. The pairing of developer 2D BOY with publisher 2D BOY 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 method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 260,000 to 606,000 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, World of Goo can be compared against similar Indie titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.

Reviews

4,807

Positive

94%

Steam appid

22000

Engine

Unknown

Players (snapshot)

Unavailable

Sales estimate

v1.0

260K to 606K

units (median: 433K)

≈ $2.2M to $5.2M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)

260K median 606K

+ How is this calculated?

4,807 reviews × NB(90) = 432,630 median units

Factor	Adjustment
base	+50
year_2008	+30
price_$15	0
positive_94%	+10
final NB	90

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 World of Goo at roughly 260,000 to 606,000 copies, with a median around 433,000, derived from its 4,807 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $3.7M 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

45 observed days · window low $2.99

Across 45 observed UTC days from 2026-06-03 to 2026-07-22, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $2.99 to $7.49. The tracked-window low was $2.99 on 2026-07-15.

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

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Platforms

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Frequently asked questions

How many copies has World of Goo sold?: indielist estimates World of Goo has sold between 259,578 and 605,682 units (median 432,630), derived from its 4,807 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
Who developed World of Goo?: World of Goo was developed by 2D BOY and published by 2D BOY.
Who published World of Goo?: World of Goo was published by 2D BOY, developed by 2D BOY. See 2D BOY's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
When was World of Goo released?: World of Goo was released in 2008.
How many reviews does World of Goo have on Steam?: World of Goo has 4,807 Steam reviews, of which 94% are positive.
Is World of Goo worth playing?: Steam players rate World of Goo 94% positive across 4,807 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 World of Goo can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Indie titles such as Baba Is You, Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition, Little Inferno, 100% Orange Juice, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, 2D BOY's other releases and 2D BOY's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where World of Goo 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 World of Goo 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.

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