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Action indie game Yooka-Laylee comes from Playtonic Games, with Playtonic Friends listed as publisher. Released in 2017, it has 5,393 Steam reviews at 75% positive, a mixed-to-positive signal, and an initial price of $19.99.
Overview
Yooka-Laylee is a 2017 Action game developed by Playtonic Games and published by Playtonic Friends. On Steam it has gathered 2,869 player reviews, 75% of them positive, which counts as a mixed-to-positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on linux, mac, windows, and launched at $20. The pairing of developer Playtonic Games with publisher Playtonic Friends 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 138,000 to 321,000 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, Yooka-Laylee can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
2,869
Positive
75%
Steam appid
360830
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.0138K to 321K
units (median: 230K)
≈ $1.6M to $3.7M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2017 | +30 |
| price_$20 | 0 |
| positive_75% | 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 Yooka-Laylee at roughly 138,000 to 321,000 copies, with a median around 230,000, derived from its 2,869 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $2.6M 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
3 observed days · window low $19.99Across 3 observed UTC days from 2026-07-20 to 2026-07-22, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $19.99 to $19.99. The tracked-window low was $19.99 on 2026-07-20.
Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.
Where to buy
Affiliate disclosure- Steam reference$19.99 Buy
- Green Man Gaming$19.99 Buy
- Humble Store$19.99 Buy
- Fanatical -10%$20.52 Buy
- GOG.com$39.99 Buy
Latest tracked store observations (2026-07-22 04:08 UTC), cheapest first. Prices may have changed since observation. Some are affiliate links — we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. Learn more.
Platforms
linuxmacwindows
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Yooka-Laylee sold?
- indielist estimates Yooka-Laylee has sold between 137,712 and 321,328 units (median 229,520), derived from its 2,869 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Yooka-Laylee?
- Yooka-Laylee was developed by Playtonic Games and published by Playtonic Friends.
- Who published Yooka-Laylee?
- Yooka-Laylee was published by Playtonic Friends, developed by Playtonic Games. See Playtonic Friends's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was Yooka-Laylee released?
- Yooka-Laylee was released in 2017.
- How many reviews does Yooka-Laylee have on Steam?
- Yooka-Laylee has 2,869 Steam reviews, of which 75% are positive.
- Is Yooka-Laylee worth playing?
- Steam players rate Yooka-Laylee 75% positive across 2,869 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 Yooka-Laylee 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, Playtonic Games's other releases and Playtonic Friends's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Yooka-Laylee 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 Yooka-Laylee 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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