How many copies has Rising World sold?

indielist estimates Rising World has sold between 283,608 and 661,752 units (median 472,680), derived from its 5,252 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.

Who developed Rising World?

Rising World was developed by JIW-Games and published by JIW-Games.

Who published Rising World?

Rising World was published by JIW-Games, developed by JIW-Games. See JIW-Games's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.

When was Rising World released?

Rising World was released in 2014.

How many reviews does Rising World have on Steam?

Rising World has 5,252 Steam reviews, of which 86% are positive.

Is Rising World worth playing?

Steam players rate Rising World 86% positive across 5,252 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.

Rising World

Dec 3, 2014 Action $14.99

Developer JIW-Games Publisher JIW-Games

Profile updated Jun 2026

Open world survival crafting with voxel building, mining, and a relaxing sandbox focus. Rising World launched in 2014 from JIW-Games, which is also listed as publisher, and has 5,905 Steam reviews at 86% positive.

Rising World is a 2014 Action game developed by JIW-Games and published by JIW-Games. On Steam it has gathered 5,252 player reviews, 86% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on linux, mac, windows, and launched at $15. The pairing of developer JIW-Games with publisher JIW-Games 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 284,000 to 662,000 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, Rising World can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.

Reviews

5,252

Positive

86%

Steam appid

324080

Engine

Unknown

Players (snapshot)

Unavailable

Sales estimate

v1.0

284K to 662K

units (median: 473K)

≈ $2.4M to $5.7M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)

284K median 662K

+ How is this calculated?

5,252 reviews × NB(90) = 472,680 median units

Factor	Adjustment
base	+50
year_2014	+30
price_$15	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 Rising World at roughly 284,000 to 662,000 copies, with a median around 473,000, derived from its 5,252 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

24 observed days · window low $10.04

Across 24 observed UTC days from 2026-06-03 to 2026-07-22, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $10.04 to $14.99. The tracked-window low was $10.04 on 2026-07-20.

Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.

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Platforms

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Frequently asked questions

How many copies has Rising World sold?: indielist estimates Rising World has sold between 283,608 and 661,752 units (median 472,680), derived from its 5,252 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
Who developed Rising World?: Rising World was developed by JIW-Games and published by JIW-Games.
Who published Rising World?: Rising World was published by JIW-Games, developed by JIW-Games. See JIW-Games's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
When was Rising World released?: Rising World was released in 2014.
How many reviews does Rising World have on Steam?: Rising World has 5,252 Steam reviews, of which 86% are positive.
Is Rising World worth playing?: Steam players rate Rising World 86% positive across 5,252 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.

Players looking for games like Rising World can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Action titles such as Valheim, Voidtrain, Necesse, Terraria, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, JIW-Games's other releases and JIW-Games's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Rising World 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 Rising World 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.

Matched from shared Steam tags and primary genre. Review count breaks ties; it is not a personal recommendation score.