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Action indie game Synth Riders launched in 2019 from developer and publisher Kluge Interactive. It has 1,325 Steam reviews marked mixed at 0% positive and an initial price of $24.99.
Overview
Synth Riders is a 2019 Action game developed by Kluge Interactive and published by Kluge Interactive. On Steam it has gathered 1,328 player reviews, 92% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $25. The pairing of developer Kluge Interactive with publisher Kluge Interactive 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 64,000 to 149,000 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, Synth Riders can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
1,328
Positive
92%
Steam appid
885000
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.064K to 149K
units (median: 106K)
≈ $910K to $2.1M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2019 | +15 |
| price_$25 | +5 |
| positive_92% | +10 |
| final NB | 80 |
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 Synth Riders at roughly 64,000 to 149,000 copies, with a median around 106,000, derived from its 1,328 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $1.5M 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 $24.99Across 8 observed UTC days from 2026-07-15 to 2026-07-22, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $24.99 to $24.99. The tracked-window low was $24.99 on 2026-07-15.
Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.
Where to buy
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Platforms
windows
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Synth Riders sold?
- indielist estimates Synth Riders has sold between 63,744 and 148,736 units (median 106,240), derived from its 1,328 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Synth Riders?
- Synth Riders was developed by Kluge Interactive and published by Kluge Interactive.
- Who published Synth Riders?
- Synth Riders was published by Kluge Interactive, developed by Kluge Interactive. See Kluge Interactive's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was Synth Riders released?
- Synth Riders was released in 2019.
- How many reviews does Synth Riders have on Steam?
- Synth Riders has 1,328 Steam reviews, of which 92% are positive.
- Is Synth Riders worth playing?
- Steam players rate Synth Riders 92% positive across 1,328 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 Synth Riders 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, Kluge Interactive's other releases and Kluge Interactive's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Synth Riders 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 Synth Riders 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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