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Rusted Moss is an action game released in 2023. It has garnered 1,423 Steam reviews. The developer and publisher attribution are not yet imported.
Overview
Rusted Moss is a 2023 Action game developed by Emlise and published by PLAYISM. On Steam it has gathered 1,659 player reviews, 89% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $20. The pairing of developer Emlise with publisher PLAYISM 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 60,000 to 139,000 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, Rusted Moss can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
1,659
Positive
89%
Steam appid
1772830
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
34
Historical snapshot ·
Sales estimate
v1.060K to 139K
units (median: 100K)
≈ $682K to $1.6M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2023 | 0 |
| price_$20 | 0 |
| positive_89% | +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 Rusted Moss at roughly 60,000 to 139,000 copies, with a median around 100,000, derived from its 1,659 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $1.1M 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
18 observed days · window low $7.99Across 18 observed UTC days from 2026-05-31 to 2026-07-24, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $7.99 to $19.99. The tracked-window low was $7.99 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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- GOG.com
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Platforms
windows
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Rusted Moss sold?
- indielist estimates Rusted Moss has sold between 59,724 and 139,356 units (median 99,540), derived from its 1,659 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Rusted Moss?
- Rusted Moss was developed by Emlise and published by PLAYISM.
- Who published Rusted Moss?
- Rusted Moss was published by PLAYISM, developed by Emlise. See PLAYISM's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was Rusted Moss released?
- Rusted Moss was released in 2023.
- How many reviews does Rusted Moss have on Steam?
- Rusted Moss has 1,659 Steam reviews, of which 89% are positive.
- Is Rusted Moss worth playing?
- Steam players rate Rusted Moss 89% positive across 1,659 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 Rusted Moss can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Action titles such as SANABI, Celeste, BlazBlue Entropy Effect, Owlboy, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Emlise's other releases and PLAYISM's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Rusted Moss 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 Rusted Moss 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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- O
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- R
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- A
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