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BalanCity is a casual indie game released in 2016, with an initial price of $7.99 placing it in the under-$10 budget range. Developed and self-published by menic-games, it has 681 reviews on Steam; its engine is unspecified.
Overview
BalanCity is a 2016 Casual game developed by MeNic Games and published by MeNic Games. On Steam it has gathered 681 player reviews to date. The game is available on linux, mac, windows, and launched at $8. The pairing of developer MeNic Games with publisher MeNic Games is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Casual projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 25,000 to 57,000 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, BalanCity can be compared against similar Casual titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
681
Positive
Unknown
Steam appid
462680
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.025K to 57K
units (median: 41K)
≈ $112K to $261K modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2016 | +30 |
| price_$8 | -5 |
| positive_80% | 0 |
| genre_Casual | -15 |
| final NB | 60 |
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 BalanCity at roughly 25,000 to 57,000 copies, with a median around 41,000, derived from its 681 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $186K 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
1 observed day · window low $7.99Across 1 observed UTC day from 2026-10-27 to 2026-10-27, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $7.99 to $7.99. The tracked-window low was $7.99 on 2026-10-27.
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
- Fanatical
- Humble Store
- GOG.com
Latest tracked store observations (2026-10-27 07:20 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
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has BalanCity sold?
- indielist estimates BalanCity has sold between 24,516 and 57,204 units (median 40,860), derived from its 681 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed BalanCity?
- BalanCity was developed by MeNic Games and published by MeNic Games.
- Who published BalanCity?
- BalanCity was published by MeNic Games, developed by MeNic Games. See MeNic Games's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was BalanCity released?
- BalanCity was released in 2016.
- How many reviews does BalanCity have on Steam?
- BalanCity has 681 Steam reviews.
Ecosystem
Players looking for games like BalanCity can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Casual titles such as Garry's Mod, Wallpaper Engine, Factorio, Balatro, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, MeNic Games's other releases and MeNic Games's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where BalanCity 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 BalanCity page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Casual 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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