How many copies has The Pale Beyond sold?

indielist estimates The Pale Beyond has sold between 77,196 and 180,124 units (median 128,660), derived from its 1,838 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.

Who published The Pale Beyond?

The Pale Beyond was published by Fellow Traveller, developed by Saltstone Studios. See Fellow Traveller's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.

When was The Pale Beyond released?

The Pale Beyond was released in 2023.

How many reviews does The Pale Beyond have on Steam?

The Pale Beyond has 1,838 Steam reviews, of which 89% are positive.

Is The Pale Beyond worth playing?

Steam players rate The Pale Beyond 89% positive across 1,838 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.

The Pale Beyond

Feb 24, 2023 Adventure $19.99

Developer Saltstone Studios Publisher Fellow Traveller

Profile updated Jun 2026

Adventure indie game The Pale Beyond centers on a 2023 release from saltstone-studios, published by fellow-traveller. It has 1,806 Steam reviews listed as mixed with 0% positive, launched at $19.99, and has no notable engine data provided.

The Pale Beyond is a 2023 Adventure game developed by Saltstone Studios and published by Fellow Traveller. On Steam it has gathered 1,838 player reviews, 89% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Adventure category. The game is available on mac, windows, and launched at $20. The pairing of developer Saltstone Studios with publisher Fellow Traveller 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 77,000 to 180,000 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, The Pale Beyond can be compared against similar Adventure titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.

Reviews

1,838

Positive

89%

Steam appid

1266030

Engine

Unknown

Players (snapshot)

Unavailable

Sales estimate

v1.0

77K to 180K

units (median: 129K)

≈ $881K to $2.1M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)

77K median 180K

+ How is this calculated?

1,838 reviews × NB(70) = 128,660 median units

Factor	Adjustment
base	+50
year_2023	0
price_$20	0
positive_89%	+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 The Pale Beyond at roughly 77,000 to 180,000 copies, with a median around 129,000, derived from its 1,838 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $1.5M 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

8 observed days · window low $3.99

Across 8 observed UTC days from 2026-07-15 to 2026-07-22, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $3.99 to $3.99. The tracked-window low was $3.99 on 2026-07-15.

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

Where to buy

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Platforms

macwindows

Genres

AdventureIndieRPG Simulation Strategy

Frequently asked questions

How many copies has The Pale Beyond sold?: indielist estimates The Pale Beyond has sold between 77,196 and 180,124 units (median 128,660), derived from its 1,838 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
Who developed The Pale Beyond?: The Pale Beyond was developed by Saltstone Studios and published by Fellow Traveller.
Who published The Pale Beyond?: The Pale Beyond was published by Fellow Traveller, developed by Saltstone Studios. See Fellow Traveller's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
When was The Pale Beyond released?: The Pale Beyond was released in 2023.
How many reviews does The Pale Beyond have on Steam?: The Pale Beyond has 1,838 Steam reviews, of which 89% are positive.
Is The Pale Beyond worth playing?: Steam players rate The Pale Beyond 89% positive across 1,838 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 The Pale Beyond can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Adventure titles such as Subnautica, Raft, Satisfactory, Human Fall Flat, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Saltstone Studios's other releases and Fellow Traveller's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where The Pale Beyond 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 The Pale Beyond 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.

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