How many copies has The First Tree sold?

indielist estimates The First Tree has sold between 242,199 and 565,131 units (median 403,665), derived from its 4,749 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.

Who developed The First Tree?

The First Tree was developed by David Wehle and published by David Wehle.

Who published The First Tree?

The First Tree was published by David Wehle, developed by David Wehle. See David Wehle's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.

When was The First Tree released?

The First Tree was released in 2017.

How many reviews does The First Tree have on Steam?

The First Tree has 4,749 Steam reviews, of which 75% are positive.

Is The First Tree worth playing?

Steam players rate The First Tree 75% positive across 4,749 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.

The First Tree

Sep 14, 2017 Adventure $9.99

Developer David Wehle Publisher David Wehle

Profile updated Jul 2026

Adventure indie game The First Tree offers a budget-priced entry at $9.99. Released in 2017 by david-wehle and self-published under the same slug, it has 5,821 Steam reviews with a 75% mostly positive rating.

The First Tree is a 2017 Adventure game developed by David Wehle and published by David Wehle. On Steam it has gathered 4,749 player reviews, 75% of them positive, which counts as a mostly positive reception among indie titles in the Adventure category. The game is available on linux, mac, windows, and launched at $10. The pairing of developer David Wehle with publisher David Wehle 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 242,000 to 565,000 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 First Tree can be compared against similar Adventure titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.

Reviews

4,749

Positive

75%

Steam appid

555150

Engine

Unknown

Players (snapshot)

Unavailable

Sales estimate

v1.0

242K to 565K

units (median: 404K)

≈ $1.4M to $3.2M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)

242K median 565K

+ How is this calculated?

4,749 reviews × NB(85) = 403,665 median units

Factor	Adjustment
base	+50
year_2017	+30
price_$10	-5
positive_75%	0
genre_Adventure	+10
final NB	85

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 First Tree at roughly 242,000 to 565,000 copies, with a median around 404,000, derived from its 4,749 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $2.3M 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

6 observed days · window low $0.99

Across 6 observed UTC days from 2026-07-17 to 2026-07-22, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $0.99 to $0.99. The tracked-window low was $0.99 on 2026-07-17.

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

Where to buy

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Platforms

linuxmacwindows

Genres

AdventureIndie

Frequently asked questions

How many copies has The First Tree sold?: indielist estimates The First Tree has sold between 242,199 and 565,131 units (median 403,665), derived from its 4,749 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
Who developed The First Tree?: The First Tree was developed by David Wehle and published by David Wehle.
Who published The First Tree?: The First Tree was published by David Wehle, developed by David Wehle. See David Wehle's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
When was The First Tree released?: The First Tree was released in 2017.
How many reviews does The First Tree have on Steam?: The First Tree has 4,749 Steam reviews, of which 75% are positive.
Is The First Tree worth playing?: Steam players rate The First Tree 75% positive across 4,749 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 The First Tree can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Adventure titles such as Subnautica, Raft, Satisfactory, Human Fall Flat, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, David Wehle's other releases and David Wehle's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where The First Tree 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 First Tree 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.

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