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Adventure-focused play defines Rusty Lake: Roots, developed and published by Rusty Lake. The 2016 release has 8,762 Steam reviews with 97% positive sentiment, and launched at an initial price of $3.99.
Overview
Rusty Lake: Roots is a 2016 Adventure game developed by Rusty Lake and published by Rusty Lake. On Steam it has gathered 8,771 player reviews, 97% 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 $4. The pairing of developer Rusty Lake with publisher Rusty Lake 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 421,000 to 982,000 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, Rusty Lake: Roots can be compared against similar Adventure titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
8,771
Positive
97%
Steam appid
532110
Engine
Unknown
Sales estimate
vv1.0421K to 982K
units (median: 702K)
≈ $960K to $2.2M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2016 | +30 |
| price_$4 | -20 |
| positive_97% | +10 |
| 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 Rusty Lake: Roots at roughly 421,000 to 982,000 copies, with a median around 702,000, derived from its 8,771 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $1.6M 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 $2.62Over the last 90 days the price ranged from $2.62 to $3.99, averaging $3.86 across 3 discount windows, with a historical low of $2.62 on 2026-05-18.
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Platforms
macwindows
Genres
AdventureIndie
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Rusty Lake: Roots sold?
- indielist estimates Rusty Lake: Roots has sold between 421,008 and 982,352 units (median 701,680), derived from its 8,771 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter vv1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Rusty Lake: Roots?
- Rusty Lake: Roots was developed by Rusty Lake and published by Rusty Lake.
- When was Rusty Lake: Roots released?
- Rusty Lake: Roots was released in 2016.
- How many reviews does Rusty Lake: Roots have on Steam?
- Rusty Lake: Roots has 8,771 Steam reviews, of which 97% are positive.
Ecosystem
indielist positions Rusty Lake: Roots within the Adventure segment so players can surface comparable titles by shared tags and genre rather than by storefront promotion. On the developer side, Rusty Lake's other releases and Rusty Lake's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Rusty Lake: Roots 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 Rusty Lake: Roots 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.