Spirit Island
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Spirit Island is an indie strategy game released in 2020. It has garnered 1,435 reviews on Steam. Publisher and developer attribution is not yet imported.
Overview
Spirit Island is a 2020 Indie game developed by Handelabra Games Inc. and published by Handelabra Games Inc.. On Steam it has gathered 1,503 player reviews, 92% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Indie category. The game is available on linux, mac, windows, and launched at $25. The pairing of developer Handelabra Games Inc. with publisher Handelabra Games Inc. is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Indie projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 72,000 to 168,000 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, Spirit Island can be compared against similar Indie titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
1,503
Positive
92%
Steam appid
1236720
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
82
Historical snapshot ·
Sales estimate
v1.072K to 168K
units (median: 120K)
≈ $1.0M to $2.4M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2020 | +15 |
| price_$25 | +5 |
| positive_92% | +10 |
| 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 Spirit Island at roughly 72,000 to 168,000 copies, with a median around 120,000, derived from its 1,503 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $1.7M 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
18 observed days · window low $24.99Across 18 observed UTC days from 2026-05-31 to 2026-07-24, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $24.99 to $24.99. The tracked-window low was $24.99 on 2026-05-31.
Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.
Where to buy
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- Green Man Gaming
- Fanatical
- Humble Store
- GOG.com
Latest tracked store observations (2026-07-24 04:12 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
Tags
NatureBoard GameTurn-Based TacticsDestructionIndieGrand StrategyStrategyTabletopCard GameLocal Co-Op2DDeckbuildingFantasyCo-opLocal MultiplayerSingleplayerEarly AccessMultiplayerMagicPsychological Horror
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Spirit Island sold?
- indielist estimates Spirit Island has sold between 72,144 and 168,336 units (median 120,240), derived from its 1,503 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Spirit Island?
- Spirit Island was developed by Handelabra Games Inc. and published by Handelabra Games Inc..
- Who published Spirit Island?
- Spirit Island was published by Handelabra Games Inc., developed by Handelabra Games Inc.. See Handelabra Games Inc.'s full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was Spirit Island released?
- Spirit Island was released in 2020.
- How many reviews does Spirit Island have on Steam?
- Spirit Island has 1,503 Steam reviews, of which 92% are positive.
- Is Spirit Island worth playing?
- Steam players rate Spirit Island 92% positive across 1,503 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 Spirit Island can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Indie titles such as Talisman: Digital Classic Edition, Monster Train 2, 100% Orange Juice, Root, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Handelabra Games Inc.'s other releases and Handelabra Games Inc.'s wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Spirit Island 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 Spirit Island page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Indie 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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