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Ultimate General: Civil War is a strategy simulation released in 2017. It has garnered 8,171 positive reviews on Steam. The developer and publisher information is not yet imported.
Overview
Ultimate General: Civil War is a 2017 Indie game developed by Game-Labs and published by Game-Labs. On Steam it has gathered 8,264 player reviews, 89% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Indie category. The game is available on mac, windows, and launched at $30. The pairing of developer Game-Labs with publisher Game-Labs 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 471,000 to 1.1 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, Ultimate General: Civil War can be compared against similar Indie titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
8,264
Positive
89%
Steam appid
502520
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
549
Historical snapshot ·
Sales estimate
v1.0471K to 1.1M
units (median: 785K)
≈ $8.1M to $18.8M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2017 | +30 |
| price_$30 | +5 |
| positive_89% | +10 |
| final NB | 95 |
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 Ultimate General: Civil War at roughly 471,000 to 1.1 million copies, with a median around 785,000, derived from its 8,264 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $13.4M 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
53 observed days · window low $11.99Across 53 observed UTC days from 2026-05-31 to 2026-07-22, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $11.99 to $29.99. The tracked-window low was $11.99 on 2026-06-26.
Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.
Where to buy
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Platforms
macwindows
Tags
WargameReal Time TacticsWarAmericaTabletopRTSGrand StrategyStrategyHistoricalBoard GameStrategy RPGTurn-Based StrategyEducationTacticalMilitaryCombatSimulationSingleplayerMultiplayerIndie
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Ultimate General: Civil War sold?
- indielist estimates Ultimate General: Civil War has sold between 471,048 and 1,099,112 units (median 785,080), derived from its 8,264 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Ultimate General: Civil War?
- Ultimate General: Civil War was developed by Game-Labs and published by Game-Labs.
- Who published Ultimate General: Civil War?
- Ultimate General: Civil War was published by Game-Labs, developed by Game-Labs. See Game-Labs's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was Ultimate General: Civil War released?
- Ultimate General: Civil War was released in 2017.
- How many reviews does Ultimate General: Civil War have on Steam?
- Ultimate General: Civil War has 8,264 Steam reviews, of which 89% are positive.
- Is Ultimate General: Civil War worth playing?
- Steam players rate Ultimate General: Civil War 89% positive across 8,264 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 Ultimate General: Civil War can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Indie titles such as Steel Division 2, Cold Waters, Regiments, Ultimate Admiral: Dreadnoughts, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Game-Labs's other releases and Game-Labs's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Ultimate General: Civil War 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 Ultimate General: Civil War 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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- S
Steel Division 2
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- C
Cold Waters
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Shared tags: Simulation, Strategy, Military
- R
Regiments
Indie
Shared tags: Strategy, Wargame, Real Time Tactics
- U
Ultimate Admiral: Dreadnoughts
Indie
Shared tags: Grand Strategy, Wargame, Military
- R
Root
Indie
Shared tags: Board Game, Tabletop, Strategy
- T
The Troop
Action
Shared tags: Turn-Based Strategy, Wargame, Strategy
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