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This adventure puzzle game lets players rearrange map pieces to explore a charming world. Released in 2020, Carto boasts 9,231 Steam reviews with 96% positive ratings. Sunhead Games developed and Balor Games published this title.
Overview
Carto is a 2020 Adventure game developed by Sunhead Games and published by Balor Games. On Steam it has gathered 9,246 player reviews, 96% of them positive, which counts as a overwhelmingly positive reception among indie titles in the Adventure category. The game is available on mac, windows, and launched at $20. The pairing of developer Sunhead Games with publisher Balor 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 472,000 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, Carto can be compared against similar Adventure titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
9,246
Positive
96%
Steam appid
1172450
Engine
Unknown
Sales estimate
vv1.0472K to 1.1M
units (median: 786K)
≈ $5.4M to $12.6M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2020 | +15 |
| price_$20 | 0 |
| positive_96% | +10 |
| genre_Adventure | +10 |
| final NB | 85 |
Confidence range: median × [0.6, 1.4]. Boundary protection: NB ∈ [15, 150].
Methodology & limitations
Sales estimates use a multi-factor Boxleiter method against public Steam review counts.
They are not authoritative sales data. Actual sales can deviate by
±50% in either direction. Free-to-play games, deeply discounted titles, and games
with heavy bundle distribution have larger error margins. Algorithm version
v1.0.
indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for Carto at roughly 472,000 to 1.1 million copies, with a median around 786,000, derived from its 9,246 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $9.0M 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
90d · low $13.14Over the last 90 days the price ranged from $13.14 to $19.99, averaging $19.43 across 2 discount windows, with a historical low of $13.14 on 2026-06-09.
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Platforms
macwindows
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Carto sold?
- indielist estimates Carto has sold between 471,546 and 1,100,274 units (median 785,910), derived from its 9,246 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter vv1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Carto?
- Carto was developed by Sunhead Games and published by Balor Games.
- When was Carto released?
- Carto was released in 2020.
- How many reviews does Carto have on Steam?
- Carto has 9,246 Steam reviews, of which 96% are positive.
Ecosystem
indielist positions Carto within the Adventure segment so players can surface comparable titles by shared tags and genre rather than by storefront promotion. On the developer side, Sunhead Games's other releases and Balor Games's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Carto 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 Carto 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.