How many copies has Kentucky Route Zero: PC Edition sold?

indielist estimates Kentucky Route Zero: PC Edition has sold between 252,624 and 589,456 units (median 421,040), derived from its 4,432 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.

Who developed Kentucky Route Zero: PC Edition?

Kentucky Route Zero: PC Edition was developed by Cardboard Computer and published by Cardboard Computer.

Who published Kentucky Route Zero: PC Edition?

Kentucky Route Zero: PC Edition was published by Cardboard Computer, developed by Cardboard Computer. See Cardboard Computer's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.

When was Kentucky Route Zero: PC Edition released?

Kentucky Route Zero: PC Edition was released in 2013.

How many reviews does Kentucky Route Zero: PC Edition have on Steam?

Kentucky Route Zero: PC Edition has 4,432 Steam reviews, of which 80% are positive.

Is Kentucky Route Zero: PC Edition worth playing?

Steam players rate Kentucky Route Zero: PC Edition 80% positive across 4,432 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.

Kentucky Route Zero: PC Edition

Feb 22, 2013 Adventure $24.99

Developer Cardboard Computer Publisher Cardboard Computer

Profile updated May 2026

Kentucky Route Zero: PC Edition is an adventure game released in 2013. It has garnered 3,188 positive reviews on Steam.

Kentucky Route Zero: PC Edition is a 2013 Adventure game developed by Cardboard Computer and published by Cardboard Computer. On Steam it has gathered 4,432 player reviews, 80% of them positive, which counts as a mostly positive reception among indie titles in the Adventure category. The game is available on linux, mac, windows, and launched at $25. The pairing of developer Cardboard Computer with publisher Cardboard Computer 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 253,000 to 589,000 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, Kentucky Route Zero: PC Edition can be compared against similar Adventure titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.

Reviews

4,432

Positive

80%

Steam appid

231200

Engine

Unknown

Players (snapshot)

Historical snapshot · 2026-05-24 10:05 UTC

Sales estimate

v1.0

253K to 589K

units (median: 421K)

≈ $3.6M to $8.4M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)

253K median 589K

+ How is this calculated?

4,432 reviews × NB(95) = 421,040 median units

Factor	Adjustment
base	+50
year_2013	+30
price_$25	+5
positive_80%	0
genre_Adventure	+10
final NB	95

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 Kentucky Route Zero: PC Edition at roughly 253,000 to 589,000 copies, with a median around 421,000, derived from its 4,432 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $6.0M 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

21 observed days · window low $24.99

Across 21 observed UTC days from 2026-05-31 to 2026-07-23, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $24.99 to $24.99. The tracked-window low was $24.99 on 2026-05-31.

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

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Frequently asked questions

How many copies has Kentucky Route Zero: PC Edition sold?: indielist estimates Kentucky Route Zero: PC Edition has sold between 252,624 and 589,456 units (median 421,040), derived from its 4,432 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
Who developed Kentucky Route Zero: PC Edition?: Kentucky Route Zero: PC Edition was developed by Cardboard Computer and published by Cardboard Computer.
Who published Kentucky Route Zero: PC Edition?: Kentucky Route Zero: PC Edition was published by Cardboard Computer, developed by Cardboard Computer. See Cardboard Computer's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
When was Kentucky Route Zero: PC Edition released?: Kentucky Route Zero: PC Edition was released in 2013.
How many reviews does Kentucky Route Zero: PC Edition have on Steam?: Kentucky Route Zero: PC Edition has 4,432 Steam reviews, of which 80% are positive.
Is Kentucky Route Zero: PC Edition worth playing?: Steam players rate Kentucky Route Zero: PC Edition 80% positive across 4,432 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 Kentucky Route Zero: PC Edition can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Adventure titles such as Gorogoa, GRIS, Journey, Gone Home, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Cardboard Computer's other releases and Cardboard Computer's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Kentucky Route Zero: PC Edition 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 Kentucky Route Zero: PC Edition 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.