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The Wild at Heart

May 19, 2021 Adventure $24.99
Developer Moonlight Kids Publisher Balor Games
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Adventure indie game The Wild at Heart blends story-rich puzzle design with 2D hand-drawn action-adventure elements. Released in 2021 by developer moonlight-kids and publisher balor-games, it has 888 Steam reviews at 95% positive and launched at $24.99.

Overview

The Wild at Heart is a 2021 Adventure game developed by Moonlight Kids and published by Balor Games. On Steam it has gathered 714 player reviews, 95% of them positive, which counts as a overwhelmingly positive reception among indie titles in the Adventure category. The game is available on mac, windows, and launched at $25. The pairing of developer Moonlight Kids 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 Adventure projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 39,000 to 90,000 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, The Wild at Heart can be compared against similar Adventure titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.

Reviews

714

Positive

95%

Steam appid

1093290

Engine

Unknown

Players (snapshot)

Unavailable

Sales estimate

v1.0

39K to 90K

units (median: 64K)

≈ $550K to $1.3M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)

39K median 90K
+ How is this calculated?
714 reviews × NB(90) = 64,260 median units
Factor Adjustment
base +50
year_2021 +15
price_$25 +5
positive_95% +10
genre_Adventure +10
final NB 90

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 The Wild at Heart at roughly 39,000 to 90,000 copies, with a median around 64,000, derived from its 714 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $917K 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

14 observed days · window low $7.47

Across 14 observed UTC days from 2026-06-03 to 2026-07-22, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $7.47 to $24.99. The tracked-window low was $7.47 on 2026-07-21.

$6 $17 $27 06-0306-0606-0807-1707-1907-22 2026-06-03: $7.48 2026-06-04: $7.48 2026-06-05: $7.48 2026-06-06: $7.48 2026-06-07: $7.48 2026-06-08: $7.48 2026-07-15: $24.99 2026-07-16: $24.99 2026-07-17: $24.99 2026-07-18: $24.99 2026-07-19: $24.99 2026-07-20: $24.99 2026-07-21: $7.47 2026-07-22: $7.47 2026-06-03: $7.48 2026-06-04: $7.48 2026-06-05: $7.48 2026-06-06: $7.48 2026-06-07: $7.48 2026-06-08: $7.48 2026-07-15: $24.99 2026-07-16: $24.99 2026-07-17: $24.99 2026-07-18: $24.99 2026-07-19: $24.99 2026-07-20: $24.99 2026-07-21: $7.47 (tracked-window low) 2026-07-22: $7.47 (tracked-window low) Tracked-window low: $7.47 on 2026-07-21

Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.

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Platforms

macwindows

Tags

Story RichPuzzle2DHand-drawnAction-AdventureColorfulStylizedFantasyFamily FriendlyTime ManagementAtmosphericEmotionalStrategyCraftingResource ManagementAdventureLootSingleplayerSurvivalIndie

Frequently asked questions

How many copies has The Wild at Heart sold?
indielist estimates The Wild at Heart has sold between 38,556 and 89,964 units (median 64,260), derived from its 714 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
Who developed The Wild at Heart?
The Wild at Heart was developed by Moonlight Kids and published by Balor Games.
Who published The Wild at Heart?
The Wild at Heart was published by Balor Games, developed by Moonlight Kids. See Balor Games's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
When was The Wild at Heart released?
The Wild at Heart was released in 2021.
How many reviews does The Wild at Heart have on Steam?
The Wild at Heart has 714 Steam reviews, of which 95% are positive.
Is The Wild at Heart worth playing?
Steam players rate The Wild at Heart 95% positive across 714 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 The Wild at Heart can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Adventure titles such as Lost in Play, Carto, Machinarium, Samorost 3, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Moonlight Kids's other releases and Balor Games's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where The Wild at Heart 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 The Wild at Heart page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Adventure 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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