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Adventure RPG indie game with turn-based combat, JRPG structure, and fantasy tags. Released in 2023, Small Saga has 2,135 Steam reviews at 96% positive and is developed and published by darya-noghani, with an initial price of $19.99.
Overview
Small Saga is a 2023 Adventure game developed by Darya Noghani and published by Darya Noghani. On Steam it has gathered 1,798 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 windows, and launched at $20. The pairing of developer Darya Noghani with publisher Darya Noghani 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 76,000 to 176,000 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, Small Saga can be compared against similar Adventure titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
1,798
Positive
96%
Steam appid
1320140
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.076K to 176K
units (median: 126K)
≈ $862K to $2.0M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2023 | 0 |
| price_$20 | 0 |
| positive_96% | +10 |
| genre_Adventure | +10 |
| final NB | 70 |
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 Small Saga at roughly 76,000 to 176,000 copies, with a median around 126,000, derived from its 1,798 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $1.4M 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 2026-06-04 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 2026-06-04.
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
- Fanatical
- Humble Store
- GOG.com
Latest tracked store observations (2026-07-22 14:29 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
windows
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Small Saga sold?
- indielist estimates Small Saga has sold between 75,516 and 176,204 units (median 125,860), derived from its 1,798 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Small Saga?
- Small Saga was developed by Darya Noghani and published by Darya Noghani.
- Who published Small Saga?
- Small Saga was published by Darya Noghani, developed by Darya Noghani. See Darya Noghani's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was Small Saga released?
- Small Saga was released in 2023.
- How many reviews does Small Saga have on Steam?
- Small Saga has 1,798 Steam reviews, of which 96% are positive.
- Is Small Saga worth playing?
- Steam players rate Small Saga 96% positive across 1,798 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 Small Saga can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Adventure titles such as Sea of Stars: Sunset Edition, Bug Fables: The Everlasting Sapling, OMORI, Chained Echoes, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Darya Noghani's other releases and Darya Noghani's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Small Saga 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 Small Saga 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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- S
Sea of Stars: Sunset Edition
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Shared tags: Pixel Graphics, JRPG, Turn-Based Combat
- B
Bug Fables: The Everlasting Sapling
Action
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- O
OMORI
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Shared tags: Story Rich, Pixel Graphics, Indie
- C
Chained Echoes
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Shared tags: RPG, Pixel Graphics, Indie
- S
Symphony of War: The Nephilim Saga
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Shared tags: RPG, Story Rich, Fantasy
- M
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Shared tags: Pixel Graphics, Turn-Based Combat, Exploration
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