How many copies has Terra Nil sold?

indielist estimates Terra Nil has sold between 237,960 and 555,240 units (median 396,600), derived from its 7,932 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.

Who developed Terra Nil?

Terra Nil was developed by Free Lives and published by Devolver Digital.

Who published Terra Nil?

Terra Nil was published by Devolver Digital, developed by Free Lives. See Devolver Digital's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.

When was Terra Nil released?

Terra Nil was released in 2023.

How many reviews does Terra Nil have on Steam?

Terra Nil has 7,932 Steam reviews, of which 87% are positive.

Is Terra Nil worth playing?

Steam players rate Terra Nil 87% positive across 7,932 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.

Terra Nil

Mar 28, 2023 Casual $24.99

Developer Free Lives Publisher Devolver Digital

Profile updated Jun 2026

Casual indie game Terra Nil focuses on a low-pressure play angle rather than action-heavy systems. Released in 2023 by developer free-lives and publisher devolver-digital, it has 8,528 Steam reviews with 88% positive and a $24.99 initial price.

Terra Nil is a 2023 Casual game developed by Free Lives and published by Devolver Digital. On Steam it has gathered 7,932 player reviews, 87% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Casual category. The game is available on linux, mac, windows, and launched at $25. The pairing of developer Free Lives with publisher Devolver Digital is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Casual projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 238,000 to 555,000 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, Terra Nil can be compared against similar Casual titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.

Reviews

7,932

Positive

87%

Steam appid

1593030

Engine

Unknown

Players (snapshot)

Unavailable

Sales estimate

v1.0

238K to 555K

units (median: 397K)

≈ $3.4M to $7.9M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)

238K median 555K

+ How is this calculated?

7,932 reviews × NB(50) = 396,600 median units

Factor	Adjustment
base	+50
year_2023	0
price_$25	+5
positive_87%	+10
genre_Casual	-15
final NB	50

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 Terra Nil at roughly 238,000 to 555,000 copies, with a median around 397,000, derived from its 7,932 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $5.7M 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

41 observed days · window low $9.99

Across 41 observed UTC days from 2026-06-12 to 2026-07-22, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $9.99 to $24.99. The tracked-window low was $9.99 on 2026-06-12.

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

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Platforms

linuxmacwindows

Genres

CasualIndieStrategy

Frequently asked questions

How many copies has Terra Nil sold?: indielist estimates Terra Nil has sold between 237,960 and 555,240 units (median 396,600), derived from its 7,932 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
Who developed Terra Nil?: Terra Nil was developed by Free Lives and published by Devolver Digital.
Who published Terra Nil?: Terra Nil was published by Devolver Digital, developed by Free Lives. See Devolver Digital's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
When was Terra Nil released?: Terra Nil was released in 2023.
How many reviews does Terra Nil have on Steam?: Terra Nil has 7,932 Steam reviews, of which 87% are positive.
Is Terra Nil worth playing?: Steam players rate Terra Nil 87% positive across 7,932 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 Terra Nil can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Casual titles such as Garry's Mod, Wallpaper Engine, Factorio, Balatro, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Free Lives's other releases and Devolver Digital's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Terra Nil 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 Terra Nil page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Casual 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.