A Merchant's Promise
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Indie game entry A Merchant's Promise launched in 2025 from Game Draft Studio. The developer and publisher slugs match, indicating a self-published release, with 294 Steam reviews listed as mixed and an initial price of $14.99.
Overview
A Merchant's Promise is a 2025 Indie game developed by Game Draft Studio and published by Game Draft Studio. On Steam it has gathered 296 player reviews, 86% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Indie category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $15. The pairing of developer Game Draft Studio with publisher Game Draft Studio is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Indie projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 9,000 to 21,000 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, A Merchant's Promise can be compared against similar Indie titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
296
Positive
86%
Steam appid
2932960
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.09K to 21K
units (median: 15K)
≈ $76K to $177K modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2025 | -10 |
| price_$15 | 0 |
| positive_86% | +10 |
| final NB | 50 |
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 A Merchant's Promise at roughly 9,000 to 21,000 copies, with a median around 15,000, derived from its 296 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $127K 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
2 observed days · window low $14.99Across 2 observed UTC days from 2026-08-25 to 2026-09-01, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $14.99 to $14.99. The tracked-window low was $14.99 on 2026-08-25.
Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.
Where to buy
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- Green Man Gaming
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- Humble Store
- GOG.com
Latest tracked store observations (2026-09-01 06:19 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
Genres
IndieSimulationEarly Access
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has A Merchant's Promise sold?
- indielist estimates A Merchant's Promise has sold between 8,880 and 20,720 units (median 14,800), derived from its 296 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed A Merchant's Promise?
- A Merchant's Promise was developed by Game Draft Studio and published by Game Draft Studio.
- Who published A Merchant's Promise?
- A Merchant's Promise was published by Game Draft Studio, developed by Game Draft Studio. See Game Draft Studio's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was A Merchant's Promise released?
- A Merchant's Promise was released in 2025.
- How many reviews does A Merchant's Promise have on Steam?
- A Merchant's Promise has 296 Steam reviews, of which 86% are positive.
- Is A Merchant's Promise worth playing?
- Steam players rate A Merchant's Promise 86% positive across 296 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 A Merchant's Promise can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Indie titles such as Stardew Valley, Euro Truck Simulator 2, Project Zomboid, Undertale, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Game Draft Studio's other releases and Game Draft Studio's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where A Merchant's Promise 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 A Merchant's Promise page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Indie 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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