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This open-world survival RPG, released in 2021, challenges players to survive as a homeless person. With 9,807 Steam reviews averaging 84% positive, the game offers base-building and multiplayer elements. Perun Creative self-published this title.
Overview
Hobo: Tough Life is a 2021 Adventure game developed by Perun Creative and published by Perun Creative. On Steam it has gathered 9,817 player reviews, 84% of them positive, which counts as a mostly positive reception among indie titles in the Adventure category. The game is available on linux, windows, and launched at $30. The pairing of developer Perun Creative with publisher Perun Creative 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 471,000 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, Hobo: Tough Life can be compared against similar Adventure titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
9,817
Positive
84%
Steam appid
632300
Engine
Unknown
Sales estimate
vv1.0471K to 1.1M
units (median: 785K)
≈ $8.1M to $18.8M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2021 | +15 |
| price_$30 | +5 |
| positive_84% | 0 |
| genre_Adventure | +10 |
| final NB | 80 |
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 Hobo: Tough Life at roughly 471,000 to 1.1 million copies, with a median around 785,000, derived from its 9,817 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $13.5M 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
90d · low $16.22Over the last 90 days the price ranged from $16.22 to $29.99, averaging $27.95 across 3 discount windows, with a historical low of $16.22 on 2026-03-16.
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Where to buy
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- Green Man Gaming
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- Humble Store
- GOG.com
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Platforms
linuxwindows
Tags
SurvivalOpen WorldMultiplayerBase-BuildingRPGFirst-PersonCraftingStory RichSimulationSandboxRealisticCo-opOnline Co-Op3DAdventureConversationAtmosphericActionHeistInteractive Fiction
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Hobo: Tough Life sold?
- indielist estimates Hobo: Tough Life has sold between 471,216 and 1,099,504 units (median 785,360), derived from its 9,817 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter vv1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Hobo: Tough Life?
- Hobo: Tough Life was developed by Perun Creative and published by Perun Creative.
- When was Hobo: Tough Life released?
- Hobo: Tough Life was released in 2021.
- How many reviews does Hobo: Tough Life have on Steam?
- Hobo: Tough Life has 9,817 Steam reviews, of which 84% are positive.
Ecosystem
indielist positions Hobo: Tough Life within the Adventure segment so players can surface comparable titles by shared tags and genre rather than by storefront promotion. On the developer side, Perun Creative's other releases and Perun Creative's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Hobo: Tough Life 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 Hobo: Tough Life 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.