How many copies has Planetbase sold?

indielist estimates Planetbase has sold between 455,856 and 1,063,664 units (median 759,760), derived from its 9,497 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.

Who developed Planetbase?

Planetbase was developed by Madruga Works and published by Madruga Works.

Who published Planetbase?

Planetbase was published by Madruga Works, developed by Madruga Works. See Madruga Works's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.

When was Planetbase released?

Planetbase was released in 2015.

How many reviews does Planetbase have on Steam?

Planetbase has 9,497 Steam reviews, of which 80% are positive.

Is Planetbase worth playing?

Steam players rate Planetbase 80% positive across 9,497 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.

Planetbase

Oct 15, 2015 Indie $14.99

Developer Madruga Works Publisher Madruga Works

Profile updated Jun 2026

This colony simulation and city builder, released in 2015, tasks players with establishing and managing a base on a distant planet. Developed and published by Madruga Works, the game has garnered 10,327 Steam reviews with an 80% positive rating. It falls under the strategy genre, focusing on base-building in a space setting.

Planetbase is a 2015 Indie game developed by Madruga Works and published by Madruga Works. On Steam it has gathered 9,497 player reviews, 80% of them positive, which counts as a mostly positive reception among indie titles in the Indie category. The game is available on mac, windows, and launched at $15. The pairing of developer Madruga Works with publisher Madruga Works 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 456,000 to 1.1 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, Planetbase can be compared against similar Indie titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.

Reviews

9,497

Positive

80%

Steam appid

403190

Engine

Unknown

Players (snapshot)

Unavailable

Sales estimate

v1.0

456K to 1.1M

units (median: 760K)

≈ $3.9M to $9.1M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)

456K median 1.1M

+ How is this calculated?

9,497 reviews × NB(80) = 759,760 median units

Factor	Adjustment
base	+50
year_2015	+30
price_$15	0
positive_80%	0
final NB	80

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 Planetbase at roughly 456,000 to 1.1 million copies, with a median around 760,000, derived from its 9,497 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $6.5M 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

51 observed days · window low $7.49

Across 51 observed UTC days from 2026-06-03 to 2026-07-27, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $7.49 to $14.99. The tracked-window low was $7.49 on 2026-06-03.

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 Planetbase sold?: indielist estimates Planetbase has sold between 455,856 and 1,063,664 units (median 759,760), derived from its 9,497 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
Who developed Planetbase?: Planetbase was developed by Madruga Works and published by Madruga Works.
Who published Planetbase?: Planetbase was published by Madruga Works, developed by Madruga Works. See Madruga Works's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
When was Planetbase released?: Planetbase was released in 2015.
How many reviews does Planetbase have on Steam?: Planetbase has 9,497 Steam reviews, of which 80% are positive.
Is Planetbase worth playing?: Steam players rate Planetbase 80% positive across 9,497 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 Planetbase can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Indie titles such as Space Haven, Oxygen Not Included, Dyson Sphere Program, Foundation, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Madruga Works's other releases and Madruga Works's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Planetbase 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 Planetbase 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.