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Across the Grooves

Jun 17, 2020 Indie $13.99
Developer Nova-box Publisher Nova-box
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Narrative-leaning indie game from nova-box, with the studio also listed as publisher for a self-published release. Across the Grooves launched in 2020 and has 137 Steam reviews at 93% positive, a modest but very positive signal, with an initial price of $13.99.

Overview

Across the Grooves is a 2020 Indie game developed by Nova-box and published by Nova-box. On Steam it has gathered 106 player reviews, 93% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Indie category. The game is available on linux, mac, windows, and launched at $14. The pairing of developer Nova-box with publisher Nova-box 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 5,000 to 11,000 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, Across the Grooves can be compared against similar Indie titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.

Reviews

106

Positive

93%

Steam appid

957820

Engine

Unknown

Players (snapshot)

Unavailable

Sales estimate

v1.0

5K to 11K

units (median: 8K)

≈ $38K to $89K modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)

5K median 11K
+ How is this calculated?
106 reviews × NB(75) = 7,950 median units
Factor Adjustment
base +50
year_2020 +15
price_$14 0
positive_93% +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 Across the Grooves at roughly 5,000 to 11,000 copies, with a median around 8,000, derived from its 106 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $64K 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

9 observed days · window low $2.09

Across 9 observed UTC days from 2026-07-18 to 2026-09-05, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $2.09 to $4.19. The tracked-window low was $2.09 on 2026-08-15.

$1 $3 $5 07-1807-2508-0108-1508-2209-05 2026-07-18: $4.19 2026-07-19: $4.19 2026-07-25: $4.19 2026-08-01: $3.45 2026-08-08: $3.46 2026-08-15: $2.09 2026-08-22: $2.09 2026-08-29: $2.09 2026-09-05: $2.09 2026-07-18: $4.19 2026-07-19: $4.19 2026-07-25: $4.19 2026-08-01: $3.45 2026-08-08: $3.46 2026-08-15: $2.09 (tracked-window low) 2026-08-22: $2.09 (tracked-window low) 2026-08-29: $2.09 (tracked-window low) 2026-09-05: $2.09 (tracked-window low) Tracked-window low: $2.09 on 2026-08-15

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

Where to buy

Affiliate disclosure
  • GOG.com -85%
    $2.09 Buy
  • Green Man Gaming -75%
    $3.49 Buy
  • Steam reference -70%
    $4.19 Buy
  • Humble Store
    $13.99 Buy
  • Fanatical -10%
    $14.62 Buy

Latest tracked store observations (2026-09-05 07:05 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

linuxmacwindows

Genres

Indie

Frequently asked questions

How many copies has Across the Grooves sold?
indielist estimates Across the Grooves has sold between 4,770 and 11,130 units (median 7,950), derived from its 106 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
Who developed Across the Grooves?
Across the Grooves was developed by Nova-box and published by Nova-box.
Who published Across the Grooves?
Across the Grooves was published by Nova-box, developed by Nova-box. See Nova-box's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
When was Across the Grooves released?
Across the Grooves was released in 2020.
How many reviews does Across the Grooves have on Steam?
Across the Grooves has 106 Steam reviews, of which 93% are positive.
Is Across the Grooves worth playing?
Steam players rate Across the Grooves 93% positive across 106 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 Across the Grooves 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, Nova-box's other releases and Nova-box's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Across the Grooves 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 Across the Grooves 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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