How many copies has Starbound sold?

indielist estimates Starbound has sold between 6,513,696 and 15,198,624 units (median 10,856,160), derived from its 120,624 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.

Who developed Starbound?

Starbound was developed by Chucklefish and published by Chucklefish.

Who published Starbound?

Starbound was published by Chucklefish, developed by Chucklefish. See Chucklefish's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.

When was Starbound released?

Starbound was released in 2016.

How many reviews does Starbound have on Steam?

Starbound has 120,624 Steam reviews, of which 90% are positive.

Is Starbound worth playing?

Steam players rate Starbound 90% positive across 120,624 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.

Starbound

Jul 22, 2016 Action $14.99

Developer Chucklefish Publisher Chucklefish

Profile updated May 2026

Starbound is an action-adventure RPG with 120,587 Steam reviews. This indie title was released in 2016.

Starbound is a 2016 Action game developed by Chucklefish and published by Chucklefish. On Steam it has gathered 120,624 player reviews, 90% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on linux, mac, windows, and launched at $15. The pairing of developer Chucklefish with publisher Chucklefish 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 6.5 million to 15.2 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, Starbound can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.

Reviews

120,624

Positive

90%

Steam appid

211820

Engine

Unknown

Players (snapshot)

1,029

Fresh snapshot · 2026-07-24 14:35 UTC · 24h peak 1,147

Sales estimate

v1.0

6.5M to 15.2M

units (median: 10.9M)

≈ $55.8M to $130.1M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)

6.5M median 15.2M

+ How is this calculated?

120,624 reviews × NB(90) = 10,856,160 median units

Factor	Adjustment
base	+50
year_2016	+30
price_$15	0
positive_90%	+10
final NB	90

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 Starbound at roughly 6.5 million to 15.2 million copies, with a median around 10.9 million, derived from its 120,624 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $93.0M 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 $4.49

Across 54 observed UTC days from 2026-05-31 to 2026-07-24, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $4.49 to $14.99. The tracked-window low was $4.49 on 2026-07-18.

Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.

Where to buy

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Platforms

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Frequently asked questions

How many copies has Starbound sold?: indielist estimates Starbound has sold between 6,513,696 and 15,198,624 units (median 10,856,160), derived from its 120,624 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
Who developed Starbound?: Starbound was developed by Chucklefish and published by Chucklefish.
Who published Starbound?: Starbound was published by Chucklefish, developed by Chucklefish. See Chucklefish's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
When was Starbound released?: Starbound was released in 2016.
How many reviews does Starbound have on Steam?: Starbound has 120,624 Steam reviews, of which 90% are positive.
Is Starbound worth playing?: Steam players rate Starbound 90% positive across 120,624 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 Starbound can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Action titles such as Terraria, Necesse, Voidtrain, ARK: Survival Evolved, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Chucklefish's other releases and Chucklefish's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Starbound 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 Starbound 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.