How many copies has RimWorld sold?

indielist estimates RimWorld has sold between 13,142,790 and 30,666,510 units (median 21,904,650), derived from its 243,385 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.

Who published RimWorld?

RimWorld was published by Ludeon Studios, developed by Ludeon Studios. See Ludeon Studios's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.

How many reviews does RimWorld have on Steam?

RimWorld has 243,385 Steam reviews, of which 98% are positive.

Is RimWorld worth playing?

Steam players rate RimWorld 98% positive across 243,385 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.

RimWorld

Oct 17, 2018 Indie $34.99

Developer Ludeon Studios Publisher Ludeon Studios

Profile updated May 2026

RimWorld, released in 2018, is an indie colony simulation game. It boasts over 116,000 Steam reviews with a 97% positive rating. This title was self-published.

RimWorld is a 2018 Indie game developed by Ludeon Studios and published by Ludeon Studios. On Steam it has gathered 243,385 player reviews, 98% of them positive, which counts as a overwhelmingly positive reception among indie titles in the Indie category. The game is available on linux, mac, windows, and launched at $35. The pairing of developer Ludeon Studios with publisher Ludeon Studios 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 13.1 million to 30.7 million 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, RimWorld can be compared against similar Indie titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.

Reviews

243,385

Positive

98%

Steam appid

294100

Engine

Unknown

Players (snapshot)

29,192

Fresh snapshot · 2026-07-24 12:20 UTC · 24h peak 32,775

Sales estimate

v1.0

13.1M to 30.7M

units (median: 21.9M)

≈ $262.7M to $612.9M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)

13.1M median 30.7M

+ How is this calculated?

243,385 reviews × NB(90) = 21,904,650 median units

Factor	Adjustment
base	+50
year_2018	+15
price_$35	+15
positive_98%	+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 RimWorld at roughly 13.1 million to 30.7 million copies, with a median around 21.9 million, derived from its 243,385 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $437.8M 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

55 observed days · window low $27.99

Across 55 observed UTC days from 2026-05-15 to 2026-07-24, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $27.99 to $34.99. The tracked-window low was $27.99 on 2026-05-15.

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 RimWorld sold?: indielist estimates RimWorld has sold between 13,142,790 and 30,666,510 units (median 21,904,650), derived from its 243,385 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
Who developed RimWorld?: RimWorld was developed by Ludeon Studios and published by Ludeon Studios.
Who published RimWorld?: RimWorld was published by Ludeon Studios, developed by Ludeon Studios. See Ludeon Studios's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
When was RimWorld released?: RimWorld was released in 2018.
How many reviews does RimWorld have on Steam?: RimWorld has 243,385 Steam reviews, of which 98% are positive.
Is RimWorld worth playing?: Steam players rate RimWorld 98% positive across 243,385 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 RimWorld can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Indie titles such as Oxygen Not Included, Space Haven, Planetbase, Going Medieval, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Ludeon Studios's other releases and Ludeon Studios's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where RimWorld 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 RimWorld 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.