Kristala
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Souls-like Action RPG gameplay frames Kristala as a dark fantasy indie game with fantasy and action tags. Released in 2026 by Astral Clocktower Studios and self-published under the same slug, it lists 380 Steam reviews marked mixed at 0% positive and a $39.99 initial price.
Overview
Kristala is a 2026 Action game developed by Astral Clocktower Studios and published by Astral Clocktower Studios. On Steam it has gathered 434 player reviews, 75% of them positive, which counts as a mostly positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $40. The pairing of developer Astral Clocktower Studios with publisher Astral Clocktower Studios is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Action projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 14,000 to 33,000 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, Kristala can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
434
Positive
75%
Steam appid
1206410
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.014K to 33K
units (median: 24K)
≈ $327K to $763K modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2026 | -10 |
| price_$40 | +15 |
| positive_75% | 0 |
| final NB | 55 |
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 Kristala at roughly 14,000 to 33,000 copies, with a median around 24,000, derived from its 434 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $545K 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
9 observed days · window low $23.99Across 9 observed UTC days from 2026-06-05 to 2026-07-22, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $23.99 to $39.99. The tracked-window low was $23.99 on 2026-06-05.
Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.
Where to buy
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- Green Man Gaming
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- Humble Store
- GOG.com
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Platforms
windows
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Kristala sold?
- indielist estimates Kristala has sold between 14,322 and 33,418 units (median 23,870), derived from its 434 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Kristala?
- Kristala was developed by Astral Clocktower Studios and published by Astral Clocktower Studios.
- Who published Kristala?
- Kristala was published by Astral Clocktower Studios, developed by Astral Clocktower Studios. See Astral Clocktower Studios's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was Kristala released?
- Kristala was released in 2026.
- How many reviews does Kristala have on Steam?
- Kristala has 434 Steam reviews, of which 75% are positive.
- Is Kristala worth playing?
- Steam players rate Kristala 75% positive across 434 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 Kristala can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Action titles such as Drova - Forsaken Kin, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, ATLYSS, Kena: Bridge of Spirits, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Astral Clocktower Studios's other releases and Astral Clocktower Studios's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Kristala 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 Kristala page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Action 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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