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Adventure RPG indie game with JRPG, anime, and sexual content tags. Demons Roots launched in 2023 from developer quick-nail-aristocrat and publisher Kagura Games, with 2,270 Steam reviews at 94% positive and a $19.99 initial price.
Overview
Demons Roots is a 2023 Adventure game developed by Quick nail Aristocrat and published by Kagura Games. On Steam it has gathered 2,215 player reviews, 94% 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 Quick nail Aristocrat with publisher Kagura Games 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 93,000 to 217,000 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, Demons Roots can be compared against similar Adventure titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
2,215
Positive
94%
Steam appid
1933660
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.093K to 217K
units (median: 155K)
≈ $1.1M to $2.5M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2023 | 0 |
| price_$20 | 0 |
| positive_94% | +10 |
| genre_Adventure | +10 |
| final NB | 70 |
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 Demons Roots at roughly 93,000 to 217,000 copies, with a median around 155,000, derived from its 2,215 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $1.8M 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
14 observed days · window low $12.99Across 14 observed UTC days from 2026-06-04 to 2026-07-22, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $12.99 to $19.99. The tracked-window low was $12.99 on 2026-07-15.
Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.
Where to buy
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Platforms
windows
Tags
AdventureRPGSexual ContentJRPGAnimeRPGMakerHentaiSingleplayerNudityIndieStory RichNSFWFemale ProtagonistMature2DCuteGreat SoundtrackLGBTQ+
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Demons Roots sold?
- indielist estimates Demons Roots has sold between 93,030 and 217,070 units (median 155,050), derived from its 2,215 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Demons Roots?
- Demons Roots was developed by Quick nail Aristocrat and published by Kagura Games.
- Who published Demons Roots?
- Demons Roots was published by Kagura Games, developed by Quick nail Aristocrat. See Kagura Games's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was Demons Roots released?
- Demons Roots was released in 2023.
- How many reviews does Demons Roots have on Steam?
- Demons Roots has 2,215 Steam reviews, of which 94% are positive.
- Is Demons Roots worth playing?
- Steam players rate Demons Roots 94% positive across 2,215 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 Demons Roots can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Adventure titles such as Changed, NEKOPARA Vol. 2, Living With Sister: Monochrome Fantasy, NEKOPARA Vol. 3, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Quick nail Aristocrat's other releases and Kagura Games's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Demons Roots 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 Demons Roots 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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