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Adventure indie game Luto launched in 2025 from Broken Bird Games, with the developer also listed as publisher. It has 1,147 Steam reviews marked mixed with 0% positive in the provided data, and an initial price of $19.99.
Overview
Luto is a 2025 Adventure game developed by Broken Bird Games and published by Broken Bird Games. On Steam it has gathered 1,182 player reviews, 85% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Adventure category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $20. The pairing of developer Broken Bird Games with publisher Broken Bird Games 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 43,000 to 99,000 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, Luto can be compared against similar Adventure titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
1,182
Positive
85%
Steam appid
1729740
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.043K to 99K
units (median: 71K)
≈ $486K to $1.1M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2025 | -10 |
| price_$20 | 0 |
| positive_85% | +10 |
| genre_Adventure | +10 |
| final NB | 60 |
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 Luto at roughly 43,000 to 99,000 copies, with a median around 71,000, derived from its 1,182 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $810K 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
8 observed days · window low FreeAcross 8 observed UTC days from 2026-07-15 to 2026-07-22, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from Free to $19.99. The tracked-window low was Free 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
windows
Genres
AdventureIndie
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Luto sold?
- indielist estimates Luto has sold between 42,552 and 99,288 units (median 70,920), derived from its 1,182 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Luto?
- Luto was developed by Broken Bird Games and published by Broken Bird Games.
- Who published Luto?
- Luto was published by Broken Bird Games, developed by Broken Bird Games. See Broken Bird Games's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was Luto released?
- Luto was released in 2025.
- How many reviews does Luto have on Steam?
- Luto has 1,182 Steam reviews, of which 85% are positive.
- Is Luto worth playing?
- Steam players rate Luto 85% positive across 1,182 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 Luto can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Adventure titles such as Subnautica, Raft, Satisfactory, Human Fall Flat, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Broken Bird Games's other releases and Broken Bird Games's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Luto 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 Luto 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.
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