How many copies has Nova Drift sold?

indielist estimates Nova Drift has sold between 464,652 and 1,084,188 units (median 774,420), derived from its 12,907 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.

Who developed Nova Drift?

Nova Drift was developed by Chimeric and published by Pixeljam.

Who published Nova Drift?

Nova Drift was published by Pixeljam, developed by Chimeric. See Pixeljam's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.

When was Nova Drift released?

Nova Drift was released in 2024.

How many reviews does Nova Drift have on Steam?

Nova Drift has 12,907 Steam reviews, of which 96% are positive.

Is Nova Drift worth playing?

Steam players rate Nova Drift 96% positive across 12,907 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.

Nova Drift

Aug 12, 2024 Action $17.99

Developer Chimeric Publisher Pixeljam

Profile updated May 2026

Nova Drift is an action game released in 2024. It has garnered 12,833 positive reviews on Steam. The developer and publisher attribution are not yet imported.

Nova Drift is a 2024 Action game developed by Chimeric and published by Pixeljam. On Steam it has gathered 12,907 player reviews, 96% of them positive, which counts as a overwhelmingly positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on mac, windows, and launched at $18. The pairing of developer Chimeric with publisher Pixeljam 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 465,000 to 1.1 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, Nova Drift can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.

Reviews

12,907

Positive

96%

Steam appid

858210

Engine

Unknown

Players (snapshot)

Historical snapshot · 2026-05-24 16:50 UTC

Sales estimate

v1.0

465K to 1.1M

units (median: 774K)

≈ $4.8M to $11.1M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)

465K median 1.1M

+ How is this calculated?

12,907 reviews × NB(60) = 774,420 median units

Factor	Adjustment
base	+50
year_2024	0
price_$18	0
positive_96%	+10
final NB	60

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 Nova Drift at roughly 465,000 to 1.1 million copies, with a median around 774,000, derived from its 12,907 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $8.0M 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

54 observed days · window low $8.99

Across 54 observed UTC days from 2026-05-31 to 2026-07-24, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $8.99 to $17.99. The tracked-window low was $8.99 on 2026-06-05.

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 Nova Drift sold?: indielist estimates Nova Drift has sold between 464,652 and 1,084,188 units (median 774,420), derived from its 12,907 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
Who developed Nova Drift?: Nova Drift was developed by Chimeric and published by Pixeljam.
Who published Nova Drift?: Nova Drift was published by Pixeljam, developed by Chimeric. See Pixeljam's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
When was Nova Drift released?: Nova Drift was released in 2024.
How many reviews does Nova Drift have on Steam?: Nova Drift has 12,907 Steam reviews, of which 96% are positive.
Is Nova Drift worth playing?: Steam players rate Nova Drift 96% positive across 12,907 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.

Players looking for games like Nova Drift can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Action titles such as Vampire Survivors, Beat Hazard, Yet Another Zombie Survivors, Nordic Ashes: Survivors of Ragnarok, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Chimeric's other releases and Pixeljam's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Nova Drift 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 Nova Drift 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.

Matched from shared Steam tags and primary genre. Review count breaks ties; it is not a personal recommendation score.