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Action indie game Taboo Trial launched in 2023 from developer cat-shine and publisher npc-entertainment. It has 1,644 Steam reviews listed as mixed at 0% positive, with an initial price of $14.99.
Overview
Taboo Trial is a 2023 Action game developed by Cat Shine and published by NPC Entertainment. On Steam it has gathered 1,703 player reviews, 83% of them positive, which counts as a mostly positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $15. The pairing of developer Cat Shine with publisher NPC Entertainment 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 51,000 to 119,000 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, Taboo Trial can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
1,703
Positive
83%
Steam appid
2455060
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.051K to 119K
units (median: 85K)
≈ $437K to $1.0M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2023 | 0 |
| price_$15 | 0 |
| positive_83% | 0 |
| final NB | 50 |
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 Taboo Trial at roughly 51,000 to 119,000 copies, with a median around 85,000, derived from its 1,703 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $729K 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
9 observed days · window low $14.99Across 9 observed UTC days from 2026-07-15 to 2026-07-23, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $14.99 to $14.99. The tracked-window low was $14.99 on 2026-07-15.
Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.
Where to buy
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Platforms
windows
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Taboo Trial sold?
- indielist estimates Taboo Trial has sold between 51,090 and 119,210 units (median 85,150), derived from its 1,703 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Taboo Trial?
- Taboo Trial was developed by Cat Shine and published by NPC Entertainment.
- Who published Taboo Trial?
- Taboo Trial was published by NPC Entertainment, developed by Cat Shine. See NPC Entertainment's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was Taboo Trial released?
- Taboo Trial was released in 2023.
- How many reviews does Taboo Trial have on Steam?
- Taboo Trial has 1,703 Steam reviews, of which 83% are positive.
- Is Taboo Trial worth playing?
- Steam players rate Taboo Trial 83% positive across 1,703 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 Taboo Trial can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Action titles such as Rust, Terraria, Phasmophobia, ARK: Survival Evolved, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Cat Shine's other releases and NPC Entertainment's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Taboo Trial 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 Taboo Trial 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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