The Flame in the Flood
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Action indie game The Flame in the Flood pairs survival-focused play with a 2016 release from developer the-molasses-flood. It has 2,695 Steam reviews listed as mixed at 0% positive, was published by cd-projekt-red, and launched at $14.99.
Overview
The Flame in the Flood is a 2016 Action game developed by The Molasses Flood and published by CD PROJEKT RED. On Steam it has gathered 2,702 player reviews, 76% of them positive, which counts as a mostly positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on mac, windows, and launched at $15. The pairing of developer The Molasses Flood with publisher CD PROJEKT RED 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 130,000 to 303,000 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, The Flame in the Flood can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
2,702
Positive
76%
Steam appid
318600
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.0130K to 303K
units (median: 216K)
≈ $1.1M to $2.6M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2016 | +30 |
| price_$15 | 0 |
| positive_76% | 0 |
| final NB | 80 |
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 The Flame in the Flood at roughly 130,000 to 303,000 copies, with a median around 216,000, derived from its 2,702 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $1.9M 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
8 observed days · window low $14.99Across 8 observed UTC days from 2026-07-15 to 2026-07-22, 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
macwindows
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has The Flame in the Flood sold?
- indielist estimates The Flame in the Flood has sold between 129,696 and 302,624 units (median 216,160), derived from its 2,702 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed The Flame in the Flood?
- The Flame in the Flood was developed by The Molasses Flood and published by CD PROJEKT RED.
- Who published The Flame in the Flood?
- The Flame in the Flood was published by CD PROJEKT RED, developed by The Molasses Flood. See CD PROJEKT RED's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was The Flame in the Flood released?
- The Flame in the Flood was released in 2016.
- How many reviews does The Flame in the Flood have on Steam?
- The Flame in the Flood has 2,702 Steam reviews, of which 76% are positive.
- Is The Flame in the Flood worth playing?
- Steam players rate The Flame in the Flood 76% positive across 2,702 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 The Flame in the Flood 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, The Molasses Flood's other releases and CD PROJEKT RED's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where The Flame in the Flood 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 The Flame in the Flood 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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