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Action indie game Black The Fall comes from Sand Sailor Studio and was published by Square Enix in 2017. It has 785 Steam reviews marked mixed, with the provided data showing 0% positive, and launched at an initial price of $14.99.
Overview
Black The Fall is a 2017 Action game developed by Sand Sailor Studio and published by Square Enix. On Steam it has gathered 789 player reviews, 78% 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 $15. The pairing of developer Sand Sailor Studio with publisher Square Enix 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 38,000 to 88,000 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, Black The Fall can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
789
Positive
78%
Steam appid
308060
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.038K to 88K
units (median: 63K)
≈ $324K to $757K modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2017 | +30 |
| price_$15 | 0 |
| positive_78% | 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 Black The Fall at roughly 38,000 to 88,000 copies, with a median around 63,000, derived from its 789 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $540K 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
5 observed days · window low $3.74Across 5 observed UTC days from 2026-08-07 to 2026-09-04, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $3.74 to $14.99. The tracked-window low was $3.74 on 2026-08-07.
Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.
Where to buy
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Platforms
windows
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Black The Fall sold?
- indielist estimates Black The Fall has sold between 37,872 and 88,368 units (median 63,120), derived from its 789 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Black The Fall?
- Black The Fall was developed by Sand Sailor Studio and published by Square Enix.
- Who published Black The Fall?
- Black The Fall was published by Square Enix, developed by Sand Sailor Studio. See Square Enix's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was Black The Fall released?
- Black The Fall was released in 2017.
- How many reviews does Black The Fall have on Steam?
- Black The Fall has 789 Steam reviews, of which 78% are positive.
- Is Black The Fall worth playing?
- Steam players rate Black The Fall 78% positive across 789 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 Black The Fall can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Action titles such as Terraria, Rust, Phasmophobia, The Forest, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Sand Sailor Studio's other releases and Square Enix's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Black The Fall 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 Black The Fall 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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