How many copies has Bugtopia sold?

indielist estimates Bugtopia has sold between 15,282 and 35,658 units (median 25,470), derived from its 849 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.

Who published Bugtopia?

Bugtopia was published by GCORES PUBLISHING, developed by Nocturnal Games. See GCORES PUBLISHING's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.

How many reviews does Bugtopia have on Steam?

Bugtopia has 849 Steam reviews, of which 93% are positive.

Is Bugtopia worth playing?

Steam players rate Bugtopia 93% positive across 849 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.

Bugtopia

May 21, 2025 Casual $5.99

Developer Nocturnal Games Publisher GCORES PUBLISHING

Profile updated Jul 2026

Casual indie game Bugtopia targets players looking for a low-cost release, with a $5.99 initial price and a 2025 launch. It has 978 Steam reviews at 93% positive, developed by nocturnal-games and published by gcores-publishing.

Bugtopia is a 2025 Casual game developed by Nocturnal Games and published by GCORES PUBLISHING. On Steam it has gathered 849 player reviews, 93% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Casual category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $6. The pairing of developer Nocturnal Games with publisher GCORES PUBLISHING 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 15,000 to 36,000 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, Bugtopia can be compared against similar Casual titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.

Reviews

849

Positive

93%

Steam appid

2988300

Engine

Unknown

Players (snapshot)

Unavailable

Sales estimate

v1.0

15K to 36K

units (median: 25K)

≈ $52K to $122K modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)

15K median 36K

+ How is this calculated?

849 reviews × NB(30) = 25,470 median units

Factor	Adjustment
base	+50
year_2025	-10
price_$6	-5
positive_93%	+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 Bugtopia at roughly 15,000 to 36,000 copies, with a median around 25,000, derived from its 849 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $87K 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

3 observed days · window low $5.99

Across 3 observed UTC days from 2026-07-20 to 2026-07-22, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $5.99 to $5.99. The tracked-window low was $5.99 on 2026-07-20.

Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.

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Platforms

windows

Genres

CasualIndieSimulation

Frequently asked questions

How many copies has Bugtopia sold?: indielist estimates Bugtopia has sold between 15,282 and 35,658 units (median 25,470), derived from its 849 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
Who developed Bugtopia?: Bugtopia was developed by Nocturnal Games and published by GCORES PUBLISHING.
Who published Bugtopia?: Bugtopia was published by GCORES PUBLISHING, developed by Nocturnal Games. See GCORES PUBLISHING's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
When was Bugtopia released?: Bugtopia was released in 2025.
How many reviews does Bugtopia have on Steam?: Bugtopia has 849 Steam reviews, of which 93% are positive.
Is Bugtopia worth playing?: Steam players rate Bugtopia 93% positive across 849 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 Bugtopia can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Casual titles such as Garry's Mod, Wallpaper Engine, Factorio, Balatro, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Nocturnal Games's other releases and GCORES PUBLISHING's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Bugtopia 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 Bugtopia 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.

Matched from shared Steam tags and primary genre. Review count breaks ties; it is not a personal recommendation score.