Alien Market Simulator
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Action indie game with simulation, economy, and management hooks, set in a sci-fi life sim niche. Released in 2026 by Silly Sloth Studios and published by Shadow Owl Studios, Alien Market Simulator has 121 Steam reviews at 85% positive and a $12.99 launch price.
Overview
Alien Market Simulator is a 2026 Action game developed by Silly Sloth Studios and published by Shadow Owl Studios. On Steam it has gathered 122 player reviews, 85% 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 $13. The pairing of developer Silly Sloth Studios with publisher Shadow Owl Studios 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 3,000 to 7,000 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, Alien Market Simulator can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
122
Positive
85%
Steam appid
3215290
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.03K to 7K
units (median: 5K)
≈ $22K to $51K modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2026 | -10 |
| price_$13 | 0 |
| positive_85% | 0 |
| final NB | 40 |
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 Alien Market Simulator at roughly 3,000 to 7,000 copies, with a median around 5,000, derived from its 122 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $36K 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
10 observed days · window low $10.39Across 10 observed UTC days from 2026-07-15 to 2026-09-02, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $10.39 to $12.99. The tracked-window low was $10.39 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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- Green Man Gaming
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- Humble Store
- GOG.com
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Platforms
windows
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Alien Market Simulator sold?
- indielist estimates Alien Market Simulator has sold between 2,928 and 6,832 units (median 4,880), derived from its 122 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Alien Market Simulator?
- Alien Market Simulator was developed by Silly Sloth Studios and published by Shadow Owl Studios.
- Who published Alien Market Simulator?
- Alien Market Simulator was published by Shadow Owl Studios, developed by Silly Sloth Studios. See Shadow Owl Studios's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was Alien Market Simulator released?
- Alien Market Simulator was released in 2026.
- How many reviews does Alien Market Simulator have on Steam?
- Alien Market Simulator has 122 Steam reviews, of which 85% are positive.
- Is Alien Market Simulator worth playing?
- Steam players rate Alien Market Simulator 85% positive across 122 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 Alien Market Simulator can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Action titles such as Supermarket Simulator, House Flipper, PC Building Simulator, Tank Mechanic Simulator, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Silly Sloth Studios's other releases and Shadow Owl Studios's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Alien Market Simulator 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 Alien Market Simulator 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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- T
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