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Action indie game Sands of Aura launched in 2023 from developer chashu-entertainment and publisher indie-io. It has 586 Steam reviews marked mixed, launched at $24.99, and has no listed engine in the provided data.
Overview
Sands of Aura is a 2023 Action game developed by Chashu Entertainment and published by indie.io. On Steam it has gathered 840 player reviews, 75% of them positive, which counts as a mixed-to-positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $25. The pairing of developer Chashu Entertainment with publisher indie.io 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 28,000 to 65,000 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, Sands of Aura can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
840
Positive
75%
Steam appid
1119840
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.028K to 65K
units (median: 46K)
≈ $396K to $923K modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2023 | 0 |
| price_$25 | +5 |
| positive_75% | 0 |
| final NB | 55 |
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 Sands of Aura at roughly 28,000 to 65,000 copies, with a median around 46,000, derived from its 840 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $659K 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 $9.99Across 8 observed UTC days from 2026-07-15 to 2026-07-22, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $9.99 to $9.99. The tracked-window low was $9.99 on 2026-07-15.
Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.
Where to buy
Affiliate disclosure- Steam reference -60%$9.99 Buy
- GOG.com -60%$9.99 Buy
- Fanatical -10%$23.61 Buy
- Humble Store$24.99 Buy
- Green Man Gaming
Latest tracked store observations (2026-07-22 18:25 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
windows
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Sands of Aura sold?
- indielist estimates Sands of Aura has sold between 27,720 and 64,680 units (median 46,200), derived from its 840 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Sands of Aura?
- Sands of Aura was developed by Chashu Entertainment and published by indie.io.
- Who published Sands of Aura?
- Sands of Aura was published by indie.io, developed by Chashu Entertainment. See indie.io's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was Sands of Aura released?
- Sands of Aura was released in 2023.
- How many reviews does Sands of Aura have on Steam?
- Sands of Aura has 840 Steam reviews, of which 75% are positive.
- Is Sands of Aura worth playing?
- Steam players rate Sands of Aura 75% positive across 840 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 Sands of Aura can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Action titles such as Terraria, Rust, Phasmophobia, ARK: Survival Evolved, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Chashu Entertainment's other releases and indie.io's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Sands of Aura 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 Sands of Aura 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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