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The Sapling is a simulation game released in 2019. It has garnered 1,808 Steam reviews. The title is currently in Early Access.
Overview
The Sapling is a 2019 Simulation game developed by Wessel Stoop and published by Wessel Stoop. On Steam it has gathered 1,899 player reviews, 90% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Simulation category. The game is available on linux, windows, and launched at $18. The pairing of developer Wessel Stoop with publisher Wessel Stoop is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Simulation projects reach the market. indielist's white-box model estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 85,000 to 199,000 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, The Sapling can be compared against similar Simulation titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
1,899
Positive
90%
Steam appid
997380
Engine
n/a
Sales estimate
vv1.085K to 199K
units (median: 142K)
≈ $878K to $2.0M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for The Sapling at roughly 85,000 to 199,000 copies, with a median around 142,000, derived from its 1,899 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter model (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $1.5M 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 $9.14Over the last 90 days the price ranged from $9.14 to $17.99, averaging $17.01 across 2 discount windows, with a historical low of $9.14 on 2026-03-30.
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Where to buy
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Platforms
linuxwindows
Tags
Life SimSandboxScienceGod GameNatureArtificial IntelligenceProcedural GenerationSimulationDinosaursAliensEducationRelaxingOpen WorldCasualSingleplayerAtmosphericEarly AccessIndieShortSurvival
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has The Sapling sold?
- indielist estimates The Sapling has sold between 85,455 and 199,395 units (median 142,425), derived from its 1,899 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter vv1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed The Sapling?
- The Sapling was developed by Wessel Stoop and published by Wessel Stoop.
- When was The Sapling released?
- The Sapling was released in 2019.
- How many reviews does The Sapling have on Steam?
- The Sapling has 1,899 Steam reviews, of which 90% are positive.
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has The Sapling sold?
- indielist estimates The Sapling has sold between 85,455 and 199,395 units (median 142,425), derived from its 1,899 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter vv1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed The Sapling?
- The Sapling was developed by Wessel Stoop and published by Wessel Stoop.
- When was The Sapling released?
- The Sapling was released in 2019.
- How many reviews does The Sapling have on Steam?
- The Sapling has 1,899 Steam reviews, of which 90% are positive.
Ecosystem
Players looking for games like The Sapling can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Simulation titles such as Amazing Cultivation Simulator, WorldBox - God Simulator, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Wessel Stoop's other releases and Wessel Stoop's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where The Sapling 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 The Sapling page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Simulation 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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