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Casual management, design, and life sim play centers on building and running rental properties, with city builder and building tags. The Tenants launched in 2022 from ancient-forge as both developer and publisher, with 7,717 Steam reviews at 79% positive and a $19.99 initial price.
Overview
The Tenants is a 2022 Casual game developed by Ancient Forge and published by Ancient Forge. On Steam it has gathered 7,042 player reviews, 79% of them positive, which counts as a mostly positive reception among indie titles in the Casual category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $20. The pairing of developer Ancient Forge with publisher Ancient Forge 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 148,000 to 345,000 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 Tenants can be compared against similar Casual titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
7,042
Positive
79%
Steam appid
1009560
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.0148K to 345K
units (median: 246K)
≈ $1.7M to $3.9M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2022 | 0 |
| price_$20 | 0 |
| positive_79% | 0 |
| genre_Casual | -15 |
| final NB | 35 |
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 Tenants at roughly 148,000 to 345,000 copies, with a median around 246,000, derived from its 7,042 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $2.8M 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
50 observed days · window low $5.99Across 50 observed UTC days from 2026-06-03 to 2026-07-22, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $5.99 to $19.99. The tracked-window low was $5.99 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$19.99 Buy
- Green Man Gaming
- Fanatical
- Humble Store
- GOG.com
Latest tracked store observations (2026-07-22 06:48 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
Tags
ManagementDesign & IllustrationLife SimCity BuilderBuildingGod GameEconomyImmersive SimSandboxReplay ValueEarly AccessTime ManagementRelaxingBase-BuildingCasualSimulationStrategySingleplayerStylizedIndie
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has The Tenants sold?
- indielist estimates The Tenants has sold between 147,882 and 345,058 units (median 246,470), derived from its 7,042 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed The Tenants?
- The Tenants was developed by Ancient Forge and published by Ancient Forge.
- Who published The Tenants?
- The Tenants was published by Ancient Forge, developed by Ancient Forge. See Ancient Forge's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was The Tenants released?
- The Tenants was released in 2022.
- How many reviews does The Tenants have on Steam?
- The Tenants has 7,042 Steam reviews, of which 79% are positive.
- Is The Tenants worth playing?
- Steam players rate The Tenants 79% positive across 7,042 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 Tenants can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Casual titles such as My Dream Setup, Farm Manager 2021, House Flipper, Supermarket Simulator, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Ancient Forge's other releases and Ancient Forge's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where The Tenants 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 Tenants 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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