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Forts is an action-strategy indie game released in 2017. It has garnered over 20,510 Steam reviews. The developer and publisher information is currently unavailable.
Overview
Forts is a 2017 Action game developed by EarthWork Games and published by EarthWork Games. On Steam it has gathered 20,595 player reviews, 92% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $15. The pairing of developer EarthWork Games with publisher EarthWork Games is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Action projects reach the market. indielist's white-box model estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 1.1 million to 2.6 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, Forts can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
20,595
Positive
92%
Steam appid
410900
Engine
n/a
Sales estimate
vv1.01.1M to 2.6M
units (median: 1.9M)
≈ $9.5M to $22.2M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for Forts at roughly 1.1 million to 2.6 million copies, with a median around 1.9 million, derived from its 20,595 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter model (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $15.9M 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 $9.01Over the last 90 days the price ranged from $9.01 to $14.99, averaging $14.06 across 3 discount windows, with a historical low of $9.01 on 2026-05-07.
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Where to buy
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Platforms
windows
Tags
Base-BuildingMultiplayerPhysicsStrategyDestructionBuildingModdableSandboxAction2DMilitaryTacticalMemesSingleplayerFunnyLevel EditorIndieRetroPixel GraphicsLemmings
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Forts sold?
- indielist estimates Forts has sold between 1,112,130 and 2,594,970 units (median 1,853,550), derived from its 20,595 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter vv1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Forts?
- Forts was developed by EarthWork Games and published by EarthWork Games.
- When was Forts released?
- Forts was released in 2017.
- How many reviews does Forts have on Steam?
- Forts has 20,595 Steam reviews, of which 92% are positive.
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Forts sold?
- indielist estimates Forts has sold between 1,112,130 and 2,594,970 units (median 1,853,550), derived from its 20,595 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter vv1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Forts?
- Forts was developed by EarthWork Games and published by EarthWork Games.
- When was Forts released?
- Forts was released in 2017.
- How many reviews does Forts have on Steam?
- Forts has 20,595 Steam reviews, of which 92% are positive.
Ecosystem
indielist positions Forts within the Action segment so players can surface comparable titles by shared tags and genre rather than by storefront promotion. On the developer side, EarthWork Games's other releases and EarthWork Games's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Forts 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 Forts page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Action 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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