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Action indie game 9th Dawn III comes from Valorware, with the developer also listed as publisher. Released in 2020 at an initial price of $15.99, it has 496 Steam reviews marked mixed.
Overview
9th Dawn III is a 2020 Action game developed by Valorware and published by Valorware. On Steam it has gathered 497 player reviews, 87% 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 $16. 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 22,000 to 52,000 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 III can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
497
Positive
87%
Steam appid
1154850
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.022K to 52K
units (median: 37K)
≈ $204K to $477K modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2020 | +15 |
| price_$16 | 0 |
| positive_87% | +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 9th Dawn III at roughly 22,000 to 52,000 copies, with a median around 37,000, derived from its 497 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $340K 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 $9.59Across 8 observed UTC days from 2026-07-15 to 2026-07-22, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $9.59 to $9.59. The tracked-window low was $9.59 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 9th Dawn III sold?
- indielist estimates 9th Dawn III has sold between 22,365 and 52,185 units (median 37,275), derived from its 497 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed 9th Dawn III?
- 9th Dawn III was developed by Valorware and published by Valorware.
- Who published 9th Dawn III?
- 9th Dawn III was published by Valorware, developed by Valorware. See Valorware's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was 9th Dawn III released?
- 9th Dawn III was released in 2020.
- How many reviews does 9th Dawn III have on Steam?
- 9th Dawn III has 497 Steam reviews, of which 87% are positive.
- Is 9th Dawn III worth playing?
- Steam players rate 9th Dawn III 87% positive across 497 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 III 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, Valorware's other releases and Valorware's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where 9th Dawn III 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 III 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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