Sword of the Stars: The Pit
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Casual indie game Sword of the Stars: The Pit launched in 2013 from Kerberos Productions, with the developer also listed as publisher. It has 1,131 Steam reviews marked mixed and an initial $9.99 price point, positioning it as a budget catalog entry.
Overview
Sword of the Stars: The Pit is a 2013 Casual game developed by Kerberos Productions and published by Kerberos Productions. On Steam it has gathered 1,133 player reviews, 83% of them positive, which counts as a mostly positive reception among indie titles in the Casual category. The game is available on linux, mac, windows, and launched at $10. The pairing of developer Kerberos Productions with publisher Kerberos Productions is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Casual projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 41,000 to 95,000 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, Sword of the Stars: The Pit can be compared against similar Casual titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
1,133
Positive
83%
Steam appid
233700
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.041K to 95K
units (median: 68K)
≈ $233K to $543K modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2013 | +30 |
| price_$10 | -5 |
| positive_83% | 0 |
| genre_Casual | -15 |
| 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 Sword of the Stars: The Pit at roughly 41,000 to 95,000 copies, with a median around 68,000, derived from its 1,133 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $388K 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
No tracked store price observations are available for this game in the last 90 days.
Where to buy
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- Green Man Gaming
- Fanatical
- Humble Store
- GOG.com
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Platforms
linuxmacwindows
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Sword of the Stars: The Pit sold?
- indielist estimates Sword of the Stars: The Pit has sold between 40,788 and 95,172 units (median 67,980), derived from its 1,133 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Sword of the Stars: The Pit?
- Sword of the Stars: The Pit was developed by Kerberos Productions and published by Kerberos Productions.
- Who published Sword of the Stars: The Pit?
- Sword of the Stars: The Pit was published by Kerberos Productions, developed by Kerberos Productions. See Kerberos Productions's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was Sword of the Stars: The Pit released?
- Sword of the Stars: The Pit was released in 2013.
- How many reviews does Sword of the Stars: The Pit have on Steam?
- Sword of the Stars: The Pit has 1,133 Steam reviews, of which 83% are positive.
- Is Sword of the Stars: The Pit worth playing?
- Steam players rate Sword of the Stars: The Pit 83% positive across 1,133 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 Sword of the Stars: The Pit can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Casual titles such as Garry's Mod, Wallpaper Engine, Factorio, Balatro, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Kerberos Productions's other releases and Kerberos Productions's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Sword of the Stars: The Pit 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 Sword of the Stars: The Pit page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Casual 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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