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This casual simulation strategy game, slated for a 2025 release, features 8,053 Steam reviews. It offers players strategic gameplay within a simulation framework. The developer and publisher attribution is not yet imported.
Overview
The Farmer Was Replaced is a 2025 Casual game developed by Timon Herzog and published by Metaroot. On Steam it has gathered 8,881 player reviews, 96% of them positive, which counts as a overwhelmingly positive reception among indie titles in the Casual category. The game is available on mac, windows, and launched at $10. The pairing of developer Timon Herzog with publisher Metaroot 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 160,000 to 373,000 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, The Farmer Was Replaced can be compared against similar Casual titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
8,881
Positive
96%
Steam appid
2060160
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
466
Historical snapshot ·
Sales estimate
v1.0160K to 373K
units (median: 266K)
≈ $912K to $2.1M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2025 | -10 |
| price_$10 | -5 |
| positive_96% | +10 |
| genre_Casual | -15 |
| final NB | 30 |
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 The Farmer Was Replaced at roughly 160,000 to 373,000 copies, with a median around 266,000, derived from its 8,881 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $1.5M 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
54 observed days · window low $7.99Across 54 observed UTC days from 2026-05-31 to 2026-07-24, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $7.99 to $9.99. The tracked-window low was $7.99 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 04:38 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
macwindows
Tags
ProgrammingAutomationIdlerPuzzleText-BasedLogicMinimalistEducationFarming SimArtificial IntelligenceFarmingResource ManagementSimulationSandboxStrategy3DColorfulSingleplayerEconomyEarly Access
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has The Farmer Was Replaced sold?
- indielist estimates The Farmer Was Replaced has sold between 159,858 and 373,002 units (median 266,430), derived from its 8,881 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed The Farmer Was Replaced?
- The Farmer Was Replaced was developed by Timon Herzog and published by Metaroot.
- Who published The Farmer Was Replaced?
- The Farmer Was Replaced was published by Metaroot, developed by Timon Herzog. See Metaroot's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was The Farmer Was Replaced released?
- The Farmer Was Replaced was released in 2025.
- How many reviews does The Farmer Was Replaced have on Steam?
- The Farmer Was Replaced has 8,881 Steam reviews, of which 96% are positive.
- Is The Farmer Was Replaced worth playing?
- Steam players rate The Farmer Was Replaced 96% positive across 8,881 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 The Farmer Was Replaced can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Casual titles such as Beltmatic, Dorfromantik, shapez 2 - Factory, Farm Manager 2021, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Timon Herzog's other releases and Metaroot's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where The Farmer Was Replaced 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 The Farmer Was Replaced 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.
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- F
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- S
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