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RPG card-game structure meets exploration, lore-rich reading, and time management in this 2023 indie game from Weather Factory. It has 4,282 Steam reviews at 89% positive, with Weather Factory listed as both developer and publisher, and an initial price of $24.99.
Overview
BOOK OF HOURS is a 2023 Indie game developed by Weather Factory and published by Weather Factory. On Steam it has gathered 4,729 player reviews, 89% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Indie category. The game is available on linux, mac, windows, and launched at $25. The pairing of developer Weather Factory with publisher Weather Factory 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 184,000 to 430,000 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, BOOK OF HOURS can be compared against similar Indie titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
4,729
Positive
89%
Steam appid
1028310
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.0184K to 430K
units (median: 307K)
≈ $2.6M to $6.1M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2023 | 0 |
| price_$25 | +5 |
| positive_89% | +10 |
| final NB | 65 |
Heuristic display range: median × [0.6, 1.4]. Boundary protection: NB ∈ [15, 150].
Methodology & limitations
Sales estimates use an additive Boxleiter-derived heuristic against public Steam review
counts. They are not authoritative sales data, and the fixed display range
is not a statistically validated confidence interval. Actual results may fall outside it,
especially for deeply discounted or bundle-heavy titles. Algorithm version
v1.0. Read the exact method and validation status.
indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for BOOK OF HOURS at roughly 184,000 to 430,000 copies, with a median around 307,000, derived from its 4,729 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $4.4M 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
17 observed days · window low $9.99Across 17 observed UTC days from 2026-06-03 to 2026-07-22, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $9.99 to $24.99. The tracked-window low was $9.99 on 2026-07-17.
Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.
Where to buy
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Platforms
linuxmacwindows
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has BOOK OF HOURS sold?
- indielist estimates BOOK OF HOURS has sold between 184,431 and 430,339 units (median 307,385), derived from its 4,729 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed BOOK OF HOURS?
- BOOK OF HOURS was developed by Weather Factory and published by Weather Factory.
- Who published BOOK OF HOURS?
- BOOK OF HOURS was published by Weather Factory, developed by Weather Factory. See Weather Factory's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was BOOK OF HOURS released?
- BOOK OF HOURS was released in 2023.
- How many reviews does BOOK OF HOURS have on Steam?
- BOOK OF HOURS has 4,729 Steam reviews, of which 89% are positive.
- Is BOOK OF HOURS worth playing?
- Steam players rate BOOK OF HOURS 89% positive across 4,729 reviews. indielist doesn't score games editorially; it surfaces public review sentiment and a white-box sales estimate so you can judge reception and reach yourself.
Ecosystem
Players looking for games like BOOK OF HOURS can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Indie titles such as Cultist Simulator, Potionomics, Loop Hero, I Was a Teenage Exocolonist, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Weather Factory's other releases and Weather Factory's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where BOOK OF HOURS 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 BOOK OF HOURS 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.
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