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Action indie game PULSAR: Lost Colony launched in 2021 from developer and publisher Leafy Games. It has 5,713 Steam reviews with 90% positive sentiment, and its initial price was $19.99.
Overview
PULSAR: Lost Colony is a 2021 Action game developed by Leafy Games and published by Leafy Games. On Steam it has gathered 4,398 player reviews, 90% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on linux, mac, windows, and launched at $20. The pairing of developer Leafy Games with publisher Leafy 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 198,000 to 462,000 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, PULSAR: Lost Colony can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
4,398
Positive
90%
Steam appid
252870
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.0198K to 462K
units (median: 330K)
≈ $2.3M to $5.3M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2021 | +15 |
| price_$20 | 0 |
| positive_90% | +10 |
| final NB | 75 |
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 PULSAR: Lost Colony at roughly 198,000 to 462,000 copies, with a median around 330,000, derived from its 4,398 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $3.8M 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
16 observed days · window low $19.99Across 16 observed UTC days from 2026-06-09 to 2026-07-22, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $19.99 to $19.99. The tracked-window low was $19.99 on 2026-06-09.
Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.
Where to buy
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- Green Man Gaming
- Fanatical
- Humble Store
- GOG.com
Latest tracked store observations (2026-07-22 18:15 UTC), cheapest first. Prices may have changed since observation. Some are affiliate links — we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. Learn more.
Platforms
linuxmacwindows
Genres
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has PULSAR: Lost Colony sold?
- indielist estimates PULSAR: Lost Colony has sold between 197,910 and 461,790 units (median 329,850), derived from its 4,398 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed PULSAR: Lost Colony?
- PULSAR: Lost Colony was developed by Leafy Games and published by Leafy Games.
- Who published PULSAR: Lost Colony?
- PULSAR: Lost Colony was published by Leafy Games, developed by Leafy Games. See Leafy Games's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was PULSAR: Lost Colony released?
- PULSAR: Lost Colony was released in 2021.
- How many reviews does PULSAR: Lost Colony have on Steam?
- PULSAR: Lost Colony has 4,398 Steam reviews, of which 90% are positive.
- Is PULSAR: Lost Colony worth playing?
- Steam players rate PULSAR: Lost Colony 90% positive across 4,398 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 PULSAR: Lost Colony 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, Leafy Games's other releases and Leafy Games's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where PULSAR: Lost Colony 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 PULSAR: Lost Colony 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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