Profile updated
Nodebuster is a 2024 casual clicker and strategy game. Developed and published by goblobin, this idler simulation has garnered 13,748 Steam reviews with 98% positive feedback.
Overview
Nodebuster is a 2024 Casual game developed by Goblobin and published by Goblobin. On Steam it has gathered 13,935 player reviews, 97% of them positive, which counts as a overwhelmingly positive reception among indie titles in the Casual category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $3. The pairing of developer Goblobin with publisher Goblobin 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 209,000 to 488,000 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, Nodebuster can be compared against similar Casual titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
13,935
Positive
97%
Steam appid
3107330
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.0209K to 488K
units (median: 348K)
≈ $357K to $833K modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2024 | 0 |
| price_$3 | -20 |
| positive_97% | +10 |
| 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 Nodebuster at roughly 209,000 to 488,000 copies, with a median around 348,000, derived from its 13,935 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $595K 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 $1.94Across 50 observed UTC days from 2026-06-03 to 2026-07-22, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $1.94 to $2.99. The tracked-window low was $1.94 on 2026-06-26.
Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.
Where to buy
Affiliate disclosure- Steam reference$2.99 Buy
- Green Man Gaming
- Fanatical
- Humble Store
- GOG.com
Latest tracked store observations (2026-07-22 21:35 UTC), cheapest first. Prices may have changed since observation. Some are affiliate links — we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. Learn more.
Platforms
windows
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Nodebuster sold?
- indielist estimates Nodebuster has sold between 209,025 and 487,725 units (median 348,375), derived from its 13,935 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Nodebuster?
- Nodebuster was developed by Goblobin and published by Goblobin.
- Who published Nodebuster?
- Nodebuster was published by Goblobin, developed by Goblobin. See Goblobin's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was Nodebuster released?
- Nodebuster was released in 2024.
- How many reviews does Nodebuster have on Steam?
- Nodebuster has 13,935 Steam reviews, of which 97% are positive.
- Is Nodebuster worth playing?
- Steam players rate Nodebuster 97% positive across 13,935 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 Nodebuster can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Casual titles such as (the) Gnorp Apologue, Cookie Clicker, Leaf Blower Revolution - Idle Game, Minami Lane, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Goblobin's other releases and Goblobin's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Nodebuster 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 Nodebuster 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.
You might also like
Matched from shared Steam tags and primary genre. Review count breaks ties; it is not a personal recommendation score.
- (
(the) Gnorp Apologue
Casual
Shared tags: Clicker, Idler, Strategy
- C
Cookie Clicker
Casual
Shared tags: Clicker, Idler, Casual
- L
Leaf Blower Revolution - Idle Game
Casual
Shared tags: Idler, Clicker, Casual
- M
Minami Lane
Casual
Shared tags: Casual, Relaxing, Management
- B
Balatro
Casual
Shared tags: Singleplayer, Strategy, Pixel Graphics
- U
Unpacking
Casual
Shared tags: Relaxing, Casual, Pixel Graphics
See more games like Nodebuster →
Leitura relacionada
-
The best city-builder and management indie games in 2026
8 min read
City-builders turn a few systems into hundreds of hours of optimization. A data-backed guide to the best indie management games of 2026, the survival-vs-classic split, and the genre economics behind them.
-
The best simulation and automation indie games in 2026
8 min read
Automation games turn one idea — make a factory more efficient — into hundreds of hours of optimization. A data-backed guide to the best indie automation and simulation games of 2026 and the long-tail economics behind them.