How many copies has Moonscars sold?

indielist estimates Moonscars has sold between 36,000 and 84,000 units (median 60,000), derived from its 1,200 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.

Who developed Moonscars?

Moonscars was developed by Black Mermaid and published by Balor Games.

Who published Moonscars?

Moonscars was published by Balor Games, developed by Black Mermaid. See Balor Games's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.

When was Moonscars released?

Moonscars was released in 2022.

How many reviews does Moonscars have on Steam?

Moonscars has 1,200 Steam reviews, of which 83% are positive.

Is Moonscars worth playing?

Steam players rate Moonscars 83% positive across 1,200 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.

Moonscars

Sep 27, 2022 Action $19.99

Developer Black Mermaid Publisher Balor Games

Profile updated Jun 2026

Action Metroidvania indie game with Souls-like combat, pixel graphics, and action-adventure structure. Released in 2022 by developer black-mermaid and publisher balor-games, Moonscars has 1,474 Steam reviews at 83% positive and launched at $19.99.

Moonscars is a 2022 Action game developed by Black Mermaid and published by Balor Games. On Steam it has gathered 1,200 player reviews, 83% of them positive, which counts as a mostly positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $20. The pairing of developer Black Mermaid with publisher Balor Games 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 36,000 to 84,000 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, Moonscars can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.

Reviews

1,200

Positive

83%

Steam appid

1374970

Engine

Unknown

Players (snapshot)

Unavailable

Sales estimate

v1.0

36K to 84K

units (median: 60K)

≈ $411K to $959K modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)

36K median 84K

+ How is this calculated?

1,200 reviews × NB(50) = 60,000 median units

Factor	Adjustment
base	+50
year_2022	0
price_$20	0
positive_83%	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 Moonscars at roughly 36,000 to 84,000 copies, with a median around 60,000, derived from its 1,200 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $685K 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

15 observed days · window low $8.99

Across 15 observed UTC days from 2026-06-03 to 2026-07-24, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $8.99 to $19.99. The tracked-window low was $8.99 on 2026-07-21.

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 Moonscars sold?: indielist estimates Moonscars has sold between 36,000 and 84,000 units (median 60,000), derived from its 1,200 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
Who developed Moonscars?: Moonscars was developed by Black Mermaid and published by Balor Games.
Who published Moonscars?: Moonscars was published by Balor Games, developed by Black Mermaid. See Balor Games's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
When was Moonscars released?: Moonscars was released in 2022.
How many reviews does Moonscars have on Steam?: Moonscars has 1,200 Steam reviews, of which 83% are positive.
Is Moonscars worth playing?: Steam players rate Moonscars 83% positive across 1,200 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 Moonscars can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Action titles such as Dead Cells, Blasphemous, Skul: The Hero Slayer, Touhou Luna Nights, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Black Mermaid's other releases and Balor Games's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Moonscars 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 Moonscars 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.

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