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Action-focused indie game 9th Dawn II comes from Valorware, which handled both development and publishing. Released in 2016, it has 164 Steam reviews at 82% positive, giving it a modest hidden-gem signal at a $5.99 budget price.
Overview
9th Dawn II is a 2016 Action game developed by Valorware and published by Valorware. On Steam it has gathered 164 player reviews, 82% 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 $6. The pairing of developer Valorware with publisher Valorware 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 7,000 to 17,000 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, 9th Dawn II can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
164
Positive
82%
Steam appid
279070
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.07K to 17K
units (median: 12K)
≈ $25K to $59K modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2016 | +30 |
| price_$6 | -5 |
| positive_82% | 0 |
| 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 9th Dawn II at roughly 7,000 to 17,000 copies, with a median around 12,000, derived from its 164 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $42K 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 $2.99Across 15 observed UTC days from 2026-07-15 to 2026-09-06, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $2.99 to $5.99. The tracked-window low was $2.99 on 2026-08-16.
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 9th Dawn II sold?
- indielist estimates 9th Dawn II has sold between 7,380 and 17,220 units (median 12,300), derived from its 164 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed 9th Dawn II?
- 9th Dawn II was developed by Valorware and published by Valorware.
- Who published 9th Dawn II?
- 9th Dawn II was published by Valorware, developed by Valorware. See Valorware's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was 9th Dawn II released?
- 9th Dawn II was released in 2016.
- How many reviews does 9th Dawn II have on Steam?
- 9th Dawn II has 164 Steam reviews, of which 82% are positive.
- Is 9th Dawn II worth playing?
- Steam players rate 9th Dawn II 82% positive across 164 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 9th Dawn II can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Action titles such as Terraria, Rust, Phasmophobia, The Forest, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Valorware's other releases and Valorware's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where 9th Dawn II 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 9th Dawn II 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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