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Pode is an adventure game released in 2020. It has garnered 520 Steam reviews. The game is tagged as Adventure and Casual.
Overview
Pode is a 2020 Adventure game developed by Henchman & Goon and published by Henchman & Goon. On Steam it has gathered 549 player reviews, 90% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Adventure category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $20. The pairing of developer Henchman & Goon with publisher Henchman & Goon 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 28,000 to 65,000 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, Pode can be compared against similar Adventure titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
549
Positive
90%
Steam appid
944080
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
2
Historical snapshot ·
Sales estimate
v1.028K to 65K
units (median: 47K)
≈ $320K to $746K modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2020 | +15 |
| price_$20 | 0 |
| positive_90% | +10 |
| genre_Adventure | +10 |
| final NB | 85 |
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 Pode at roughly 28,000 to 65,000 copies, with a median around 47,000, derived from its 549 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $533K 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 $19.99Across 16 observed UTC days from 2026-05-31 to 2026-07-24, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $19.99 to $19.99. The tracked-window low was $19.99 on 2026-05-31.
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
Latest tracked store observations (2026-07-24 05:38 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 Pode sold?
- indielist estimates Pode has sold between 27,999 and 65,331 units (median 46,665), derived from its 549 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Pode?
- Pode was developed by Henchman & Goon and published by Henchman & Goon.
- Who published Pode?
- Pode was published by Henchman & Goon, developed by Henchman & Goon. See Henchman & Goon's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was Pode released?
- Pode was released in 2020.
- How many reviews does Pode have on Steam?
- Pode has 549 Steam reviews, of which 90% are positive.
- Is Pode worth playing?
- Steam players rate Pode 90% positive across 549 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 Pode can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Adventure titles such as Human Fall Flat, Tick Tock: A Tale for Two, OneShot, LoveChoice, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Henchman & Goon's other releases and Henchman & Goon's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Pode 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 Pode 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.
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Matched from shared Steam tags and primary genre. Review count breaks ties; it is not a personal recommendation score.
- H
Human Fall Flat
Adventure
Shared tags: Co-op, Puzzle, Adventure
- T
Tick Tock: A Tale for Two
Adventure
Shared tags: Puzzle, Co-op, Adventure
- O
OneShot
Adventure
Shared tags: Indie, Cute, Puzzle
- L
LoveChoice
Adventure
Shared tags: Cute, Casual, Indie
- M
Machinarium
Adventure
Shared tags: Puzzle, Casual, Cute
- E
Escape Simulator
Adventure
Shared tags: Puzzle, Co-op, Adventure
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