Niche - a genetics survival game
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Genetics-driven survival mixes turn-based strategy, adventure, puzzle play, and nature-focused singleplayer systems. Launched in 2017 by Stray Fawn Studio and published by Stray Fawn Publishing, it has 5,194 Steam reviews at 86% positive and an initial price of $17.99.
Overview
Niche - a genetics survival game is a 2017 Indie game developed by Stray Fawn Studio and published by Stray Fawn Publishing. On Steam it has gathered 4,329 player reviews, 86% 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 $18. The pairing of developer Stray Fawn Studio with publisher Stray Fawn Publishing 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 234,000 to 545,000 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, Niche - a genetics survival game can be compared against similar Indie titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
4,329
Positive
86%
Steam appid
440650
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.0234K to 545K
units (median: 390K)
≈ $2.4M to $5.6M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2017 | +30 |
| price_$18 | 0 |
| positive_86% | +10 |
| final NB | 90 |
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 Niche - a genetics survival game at roughly 234,000 to 545,000 copies, with a median around 390,000, derived from its 4,329 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $4.0M 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
22 observed days · window low $3.59Across 22 observed UTC days from 2026-06-03 to 2026-07-22, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $3.59 to $4.49. The tracked-window low was $3.59 on 2026-06-03.
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 Niche - a genetics survival game sold?
- indielist estimates Niche - a genetics survival game has sold between 233,766 and 545,454 units (median 389,610), derived from its 4,329 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Niche - a genetics survival game?
- Niche - a genetics survival game was developed by Stray Fawn Studio and published by Stray Fawn Publishing.
- Who published Niche - a genetics survival game?
- Niche - a genetics survival game was published by Stray Fawn Publishing, developed by Stray Fawn Studio. See Stray Fawn Publishing's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was Niche - a genetics survival game released?
- Niche - a genetics survival game was released in 2017.
- How many reviews does Niche - a genetics survival game have on Steam?
- Niche - a genetics survival game has 4,329 Steam reviews, of which 86% are positive.
- Is Niche - a genetics survival game worth playing?
- Steam players rate Niche - a genetics survival game 86% positive across 4,329 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 Niche - a genetics survival game can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Indie titles such as NEO Scavenger, Dorfromantik, Into the Breach, Terminus: Zombie Survivors, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Stray Fawn Studio's other releases and Stray Fawn Publishing's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Niche - a genetics survival game 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 Niche - a genetics survival game 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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