Lay of the Land
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Action-focused indie game Lay of the Land launched in 2026 from Southern Cross Interactive, which is listed as both developer and publisher. On Steam it has 1,003 reviews at 79% positive, with a $19.99 initial price.
Overview
Lay of the Land is a 2026 Action game developed by Southern Cross Interactive and published by Southern Cross Interactive. On Steam it has gathered 1,072 player reviews, 80% 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 $20. The pairing of developer Southern Cross Interactive with publisher Southern Cross Interactive 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 26,000 to 60,000 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, Lay of the Land can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
1,072
Positive
80%
Steam appid
2776090
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.026K to 60K
units (median: 43K)
≈ $294K to $685K modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2026 | -10 |
| price_$20 | 0 |
| positive_80% | 0 |
| final NB | 40 |
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 Lay of the Land at roughly 26,000 to 60,000 copies, with a median around 43,000, derived from its 1,072 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $490K 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
14 observed days · window low $19.99Across 14 observed UTC days from 2026-06-03 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 2026-06-03.
Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.
Where to buy
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- GOG.com
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Platforms
windows
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Lay of the Land sold?
- indielist estimates Lay of the Land has sold between 25,728 and 60,032 units (median 42,880), derived from its 1,072 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Lay of the Land?
- Lay of the Land was developed by Southern Cross Interactive and published by Southern Cross Interactive.
- Who published Lay of the Land?
- Lay of the Land was published by Southern Cross Interactive, developed by Southern Cross Interactive. See Southern Cross Interactive's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was Lay of the Land released?
- Lay of the Land was released in 2026.
- How many reviews does Lay of the Land have on Steam?
- Lay of the Land has 1,072 Steam reviews, of which 80% are positive.
- Is Lay of the Land worth playing?
- Steam players rate Lay of the Land 80% positive across 1,072 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 Lay of the Land 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, Southern Cross Interactive's other releases and Southern Cross Interactive's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Lay of the Land 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 Lay of the Land 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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