Rusty Lake: Roots

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Rusty Lake: Roots

Short description

Experience the beginning and end of characters' lives and build your own family tree! Rusty Lake: Roots is the second premium point-and-click adventure by the creators of the Cube Escape series and Rusty Lake Hotel.

Developer
Rusty Lake
Publisher
Rusty Lake
Release
Thu, Oct 20, 2016
Price
$3.99
$1.99
50%
Reviews
8,204
Positive
97%
Followers
16,134
Owners (estimated)
200K – 500K
Concurrent players
114
Genres
Adventure, Indie
Features
Steam Trading Cards
Tags
Puzzle Point & Click Indie Adventure Psychological Horror Horror Story Rich Singleplayer Atmospheric Hidden Object 2D Mystery Dark Surreal Escape Room Gore Hand-drawn Casual Immersive Lovecraftian
Revenue (estimated, gross)~$1.2msomewhere between $626k and $1.6m · roughly 200K–500K copies

Review count and SteamSpy's owner range agree well enough to narrow the estimate down to this band. Multiplied by $3.13, the average price these copies actually sold for — weighted from the price history rather than taken from the $3.99 launch price. That is 22% below list price on average. Before Steam's cut, VAT and refunds. How these numbers are calculated.

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History

13 data points since Aug 3, 2026. Gaps mean nothing changed — the value carries forward.

Revenue (est.) ~$1.1m → ~$1.2m
Reviews 8,155 → 8,204
Followers 16,045 → 16,134
Concurrent players 114 → 114
Price $3.99 → $1.99
Positive reviews 97.1% → 97.1%

The revenue curve is an estimate, not a measurement. It is the only calculated series here: each interval takes the review growth of that period, multiplies it by the sales-per-review factor and by the price actually charged at the time, and adds the result to the running total. That is why it climbs more slowly through discount periods than the review curve next to it. The last point is the same figure quoted above — gross, before Steam's cut, VAT and refunds. How these numbers are calculated.

The blurred area is the rest of the history. 256 further data points reach back to Oct 1, 2016 — your plan shows the last 90 days of it. How far each series in particular reaches is written on its own chart; not every one of them goes back that far. The shape in the blurred area is decoration, not data: the figures are not in this page at all. Plus unlocks the complete series.

Lowest recorded price: $1.01 on Nov 26, 2019.

How crowded is this niche?

How full the niche around Rusty Lake: Roots is — measured on the tags it leads with, against every other combination on Steam.

±?? Puzzle + Point & Click + Indie

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