How many copies has Banished sold?

indielist estimates Banished has sold between 2,041,092 and 4,762,548 units (median 3,401,820), derived from its 37,798 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.

Who published Banished?

Banished was published by Shining Rock Software LLC, developed by Shining Rock Software LLC. See Shining Rock Software LLC's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.

How many reviews does Banished have on Steam?

Banished has 37,798 Steam reviews, of which 90% are positive.

Is Banished worth playing?

Steam players rate Banished 90% positive across 37,798 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.

Banished

Feb 18, 2014 Indie $19.99

Developer Shining Rock Software LLC Publisher Shining Rock Software LLC

Profile updated May 2026

Banished is a 2014 indie simulation strategy game. It has garnered 37,686 Steam reviews. Publisher and developer attribution are not yet imported.

Banished is a 2014 Indie game developed by Shining Rock Software LLC and published by Shining Rock Software LLC. On Steam it has gathered 37,798 player reviews, 90% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Indie category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $20. The pairing of developer Shining Rock Software LLC with publisher Shining Rock Software LLC 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 2.0 million to 4.8 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, Banished can be compared against similar Indie titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.

Reviews

37,798

Positive

90%

Steam appid

242920

Engine

Unknown

Players (snapshot)

408

Historical snapshot · 2026-06-02 22:30 UTC

Sales estimate

v1.0

2.0M to 4.8M

units (median: 3.4M)

≈ $23.3M to $54.4M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)

2.0M median 4.8M

+ How is this calculated?

37,798 reviews × NB(90) = 3,401,820 median units

Factor	Adjustment
base	+50
year_2014	+30
price_$20	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 Banished at roughly 2.0 million to 4.8 million copies, with a median around 3.4 million, derived from its 37,798 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $38.8M 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 $6.79

Across 54 observed UTC days from 2026-05-31 to 2026-07-24, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $6.79 to $19.99. The tracked-window low was $6.79 on 2026-06-02.

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

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Platforms

windows

Frequently asked questions

How many copies has Banished sold?: indielist estimates Banished has sold between 2,041,092 and 4,762,548 units (median 3,401,820), derived from its 37,798 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
Who developed Banished?: Banished was developed by Shining Rock Software LLC and published by Shining Rock Software LLC.
Who published Banished?: Banished was published by Shining Rock Software LLC, developed by Shining Rock Software LLC. See Shining Rock Software LLC's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
When was Banished released?: Banished was released in 2014.
How many reviews does Banished have on Steam?: Banished has 37,798 Steam reviews, of which 90% are positive.
Is Banished worth playing?: Steam players rate Banished 90% positive across 37,798 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 Banished can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Indie titles such as Foundation, Dawn of Man, Endzone - A World Apart, Going Medieval, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Shining Rock Software LLC's other releases and Shining Rock Software LLC's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Banished 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 Banished 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.

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