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Action indie game A Wizard's Lizard launched in 2014 from Lost Decade Games, which also published it. It has 445 Steam reviews at 70% positive, a mixed-to-positive signal, and an initial $9.99 budget price point.
Overview
A Wizard's Lizard is a 2014 Action game developed by Lost Decade Games and published by Lost Decade Games. On Steam it has gathered 240 player reviews, 70% of them positive, which counts as a mixed-to-positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on linux, mac, windows, and launched at $10. The pairing of developer Lost Decade Games with publisher Lost Decade Games 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 11,000 to 25,000 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 Wizard's Lizard can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
240
Positive
70%
Steam appid
280040
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.011K to 25K
units (median: 18K)
≈ $62K to $144K modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2014 | +30 |
| price_$10 | -5 |
| positive_70% | 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 A Wizard's Lizard at roughly 11,000 to 25,000 copies, with a median around 18,000, derived from its 240 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $103K 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 $9.99Across 14 observed UTC days from 2026-07-15 to 2026-09-02, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $9.99 to $9.99. The tracked-window low was $9.99 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
linuxmacwindows
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has A Wizard's Lizard sold?
- indielist estimates A Wizard's Lizard has sold between 10,800 and 25,200 units (median 18,000), derived from its 240 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed A Wizard's Lizard?
- A Wizard's Lizard was developed by Lost Decade Games and published by Lost Decade Games.
- Who published A Wizard's Lizard?
- A Wizard's Lizard was published by Lost Decade Games, developed by Lost Decade Games. See Lost Decade Games's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was A Wizard's Lizard released?
- A Wizard's Lizard was released in 2014.
- How many reviews does A Wizard's Lizard have on Steam?
- A Wizard's Lizard has 240 Steam reviews, of which 70% are positive.
- Is A Wizard's Lizard worth playing?
- Steam players rate A Wizard's Lizard 70% positive across 240 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 Wizard's Lizard 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, Lost Decade Games's other releases and Lost Decade Games's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where A Wizard's Lizard 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 Wizard's Lizard 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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