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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.
Overview
Planetbase is a 2015 Indie game developed by Madruga Works and published by Madruga Works. On Steam it has gathered 10,342 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 496,000 to 1.2 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
10,342
Positive
80%
Steam appid
403190
Engine
Unknown
Sales estimate
vv1.0496K to 1.2M
units (median: 827K)
≈ $4.3M to $9.9M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2015 | +30 |
| price_$15 | 0 |
| positive_80% | 0 |
| 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 Planetbase at roughly 496,000 to 1.2 million copies, with a median around 827,000, derived from its 10,342 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $7.1M 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 $7.72Over the last 90 days the price ranged from $7.72 to $14.99, averaging $14.19 across 2 discount windows, with a historical low of $7.72 on 2026-04-28.
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Where to buy
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Platforms
macwindows
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Planetbase sold?
- indielist estimates Planetbase has sold between 496,416 and 1,158,304 units (median 827,360), derived from its 10,342 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter vv1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Planetbase?
- Planetbase was developed by Madruga Works and published by Madruga Works.
- When was Planetbase released?
- Planetbase was released in 2015.
- How many reviews does Planetbase have on Steam?
- Planetbase has 10,342 Steam reviews, of which 80% are positive.
Ecosystem
indielist positions Planetbase within the Indie segment so players can surface comparable titles by shared tags and genre rather than by storefront promotion. 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.