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Action indie game FOUNTAINS launched in 2024 from developer john-pywell and publisher crunching-koalas. On Steam it has 391 reviews listed as mixed with 0% positive, and its initial price was $15.99.
Overview
FOUNTAINS is a 2024 Action game developed by John Pywell and published by Crunching Koalas. On Steam it has gathered 400 player reviews, 84% of them positive, which counts as a mostly positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on linux, mac, windows, and launched at $16. The pairing of developer John Pywell with publisher Crunching Koalas 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 12,000 to 28,000 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, FOUNTAINS can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
400
Positive
84%
Steam appid
1841240
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.012K to 28K
units (median: 20K)
≈ $110K to $256K modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2024 | 0 |
| price_$16 | 0 |
| positive_84% | 0 |
| 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 FOUNTAINS at roughly 12,000 to 28,000 copies, with a median around 20,000, derived from its 400 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $183K 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 $9.74Across 8 observed UTC days from 2026-07-15 to 2026-07-22, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $9.74 to $14.99. The tracked-window low was $9.74 on 2026-07-17.
Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.
Where to buy
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Platforms
linuxmacwindows
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has FOUNTAINS sold?
- indielist estimates FOUNTAINS has sold between 12,000 and 28,000 units (median 20,000), derived from its 400 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed FOUNTAINS?
- FOUNTAINS was developed by John Pywell and published by Crunching Koalas.
- Who published FOUNTAINS?
- FOUNTAINS was published by Crunching Koalas, developed by John Pywell. See Crunching Koalas's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was FOUNTAINS released?
- FOUNTAINS was released in 2024.
- How many reviews does FOUNTAINS have on Steam?
- FOUNTAINS has 400 Steam reviews, of which 84% are positive.
- Is FOUNTAINS worth playing?
- Steam players rate FOUNTAINS 84% positive across 400 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 FOUNTAINS can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Action titles such as Rust, Terraria, Phasmophobia, ARK: Survival Evolved, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, John Pywell's other releases and Crunching Koalas's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where FOUNTAINS 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 FOUNTAINS 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.
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