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An indie game from nova-box, Along the Edge offers a small-scope release profile rather than a tag-defined niche. It launched in 2016, is self-published by nova-box, lists an initial price of $13.99, and has 330 Steam reviews marked mixed at 0% positive.
Overview
Along the Edge is a 2016 Indie game developed by Nova-box and published by Nova-box. On Steam it has gathered 332 player reviews, 82% of them positive, which counts as a mostly 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 16,000 to 37,000 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, Along the Edge can be compared against similar Indie titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
332
Positive
82%
Steam appid
504390
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.016K to 37K
units (median: 27K)
≈ $127K to $297K modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2016 | +30 |
| price_$14 | 0 |
| positive_82% | 0 |
| final NB | 80 |
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 Along the Edge at roughly 16,000 to 37,000 copies, with a median around 27,000, derived from its 332 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $212K 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
6 observed days · window low $2.09Across 6 observed UTC days from 2026-07-28 to 2026-09-01, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $2.09 to $4.19. The tracked-window low was $2.09 on 2026-08-18.
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$13.99 Buy
- Humble Store$13.99 Buy
- Fanatical -10%$14.62 Buy
Latest tracked store observations (2026-09-01 06:54 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 Along the Edge sold?
- indielist estimates Along the Edge has sold between 15,936 and 37,184 units (median 26,560), derived from its 332 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Along the Edge?
- Along the Edge was developed by Nova-box and published by Nova-box.
- Who published Along the Edge?
- Along the Edge was published by Nova-box, developed by Nova-box. See Nova-box's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was Along the Edge released?
- Along the Edge was released in 2016.
- How many reviews does Along the Edge have on Steam?
- Along the Edge has 332 Steam reviews, of which 82% are positive.
- Is Along the Edge worth playing?
- Steam players rate Along the Edge 82% positive across 332 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 Along the Edge 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 Along the Edge 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 Along the Edge 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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