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This story-rich adventure game, released in 2012, uses RPGMaker to tell an emotional tale. Developed and published by freebird-games, it has garnered 68,564 Steam reviews with 96% positive feedback.
Overview
To the Moon is a 2012 Adventure game developed by Freebird Games and published by Freebird Games. On Steam it has gathered 69,196 player reviews, 96% of them positive, which counts as a overwhelmingly positive reception among indie titles in the Adventure category. The game is available on linux, mac, windows, and launched at $10. The pairing of developer Freebird Games with publisher Freebird Games is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Adventure projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 3.9 million to 9.2 million 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, To the Moon can be compared against similar Adventure titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
69,196
Positive
96%
Steam appid
206440
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
56
Historical snapshot ·
Sales estimate
v1.03.9M to 9.2M
units (median: 6.6M)
≈ $22.5M to $52.5M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2012 | +30 |
| price_$10 | -5 |
| positive_96% | +10 |
| genre_Adventure | +10 |
| final NB | 95 |
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 To the Moon at roughly 3.9 million to 9.2 million copies, with a median around 6.6 million, derived from its 69,196 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $37.5M 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
51 observed days · window low $1.99Across 51 observed UTC days from 2026-06-03 to 2026-07-28, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $1.99 to $9.99. The tracked-window low was $1.99 on 2026-06-26.
Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.
Where to buy
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Platforms
linuxmacwindows
Tags
Story RichGreat SoundtrackIndieEmotionalRPGMakerPixel GraphicsAdventureSingleplayerInteractive FictionRomanceRPGShort2DFunnyPsychologicalRetroCuteLinearCasualFemale Protagonist
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has To the Moon sold?
- indielist estimates To the Moon has sold between 3,944,172 and 9,203,068 units (median 6,573,620), derived from its 69,196 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed To the Moon?
- To the Moon was developed by Freebird Games and published by Freebird Games.
- Who published To the Moon?
- To the Moon was published by Freebird Games, developed by Freebird Games. See Freebird Games's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was To the Moon released?
- To the Moon was released in 2012.
- How many reviews does To the Moon have on Steam?
- To the Moon has 69,196 Steam reviews, of which 96% are positive.
- Is To the Moon worth playing?
- Steam players rate To the Moon 96% positive across 69,196 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 To the Moon can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Adventure titles such as There Is No Game: Wrong Dimension, OneShot, Until Then, Little Misfortune, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Freebird Games's other releases and Freebird Games's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where To the Moon 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 To the Moon page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Adventure 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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