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This Adventure RPG simulation game, Back to the Dawn, is slated for a 2025 release. With 8,233 Steam reviews already logged, it signals strong player interest. The developer and publisher attribution is not yet imported.
Overview
Back to the Dawn is a 2025 Adventure game developed by Metal Head Games and published by Spiral Up Games. On Steam it has gathered 10,078 player reviews, 95% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Adventure category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $24. The pairing of developer Metal Head Games with publisher Spiral Up Games is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Adventure projects reach the market. indielist's white-box model estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 393,000 to 917,000 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, Back to the Dawn can be compared against similar Adventure titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
10,078
Positive
95%
Steam appid
1735700
Engine
n/a
Sales estimate
vv1.0393K to 917K
units (median: 655K)
≈ $5.4M to $12.6M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for Back to the Dawn at roughly 393,000 to 917,000 copies, with a median around 655,000, derived from its 10,078 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter model (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $9.0M 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
90d · low $14.26Over the last 90 days the price ranged from $14.26 to $23.99, averaging $22.79 across 2 discount windows, with a historical low of $14.26 on 2026-03-09.
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Platforms
windows
Tags
RPGStory RichPixel GraphicsDetectiveChoices MatterMultiple EndingsAdventureStrategy RPGCrimeInvestigationSingleplayerMysteryIndieDramaSimulationStrategyCRPGEarly AccessFunny2.5D
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Back to the Dawn sold?
- indielist estimates Back to the Dawn has sold between 393,042 and 917,098 units (median 655,070), derived from its 10,078 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter vv1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Back to the Dawn?
- Back to the Dawn was developed by Metal Head Games and published by Spiral Up Games.
- When was Back to the Dawn released?
- Back to the Dawn was released in 2025.
- How many reviews does Back to the Dawn have on Steam?
- Back to the Dawn has 10,078 Steam reviews, of which 95% are positive.
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Back to the Dawn sold?
- indielist estimates Back to the Dawn has sold between 393,042 and 917,098 units (median 655,070), derived from its 10,078 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter vv1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Back to the Dawn?
- Back to the Dawn was developed by Metal Head Games and published by Spiral Up Games.
- When was Back to the Dawn released?
- Back to the Dawn was released in 2025.
- How many reviews does Back to the Dawn have on Steam?
- Back to the Dawn has 10,078 Steam reviews, of which 95% are positive.
Ecosystem
indielist positions Back to the Dawn within the Adventure segment so players can surface comparable titles by shared tags and genre rather than by storefront promotion. On the developer side, Metal Head Games's other releases and Spiral Up Games's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Back to the Dawn 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 Back to the Dawn page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Adventure 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.