How many copies has Celeste sold?

indielist estimates Celeste has sold between 5,829,030 and 13,601,070 units (median 9,715,050), derived from its 129,534 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.

Who published Celeste?

Celeste was published by Maddy Makes Games Inc., developed by Maddy Makes Games Inc.. See Maddy Makes Games Inc.'s full catalogue and submission status on indielist.

How many reviews does Celeste have on Steam?

Celeste has 129,534 Steam reviews, of which 97% are positive.

Is Celeste worth playing?

Steam players rate Celeste 97% positive across 129,534 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.

Celeste

Jan 25, 2018 Action $19.99

Developer Maddy Makes Games Inc. Publisher Maddy Makes Games Inc.

Profile updated May 2026

Celeste is a 2018 precision platformer from self-published developer Maddy Makes Games. With 140,000 Steam reviews at 98% positive, it combines difficult pixel-graphics platforming with a story-rich narrative. Initial price was $19.99.

Celeste is a 2018 Action game developed by Maddy Makes Games Inc. and published by Maddy Makes Games Inc.. On Steam it has gathered 129,534 player reviews, 97% of them positive, which counts as a overwhelmingly positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on linux, mac, windows, and launched at $20. The pairing of developer Maddy Makes Games Inc. with publisher Maddy Makes Games Inc. 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 5.8 million to 13.6 million 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, Celeste can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.

Reviews

129,534

Positive

97%

Steam appid

504230

Engine

Unknown

Players (snapshot)

2,282

Fresh snapshot · 2026-07-24 12:35 UTC · 24h peak 2,600

Sales estimate

v1.0

5.8M to 13.6M

units (median: 9.7M)

≈ $66.6M to $155.3M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)

5.8M median 13.6M

+ How is this calculated?

129,534 reviews × NB(75) = 9,715,050 median units

Factor	Adjustment
base	+50
year_2018	+15
price_$20	0
positive_97%	+10
final NB	75

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 Celeste at roughly 5.8 million to 13.6 million copies, with a median around 9.7 million, derived from its 129,534 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $110.9M 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

55 observed days · window low $4.99

Across 55 observed UTC days from 2026-05-15 to 2026-07-24, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $4.99 to $19.99. The tracked-window low was $4.99 on 2026-05-15.

Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.

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Platforms

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Frequently asked questions

How many copies has Celeste sold?: indielist estimates Celeste has sold between 5,829,030 and 13,601,070 units (median 9,715,050), derived from its 129,534 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
Who developed Celeste?: Celeste was developed by Maddy Makes Games Inc. and published by Maddy Makes Games Inc..
Who published Celeste?: Celeste was published by Maddy Makes Games Inc., developed by Maddy Makes Games Inc.. See Maddy Makes Games Inc.'s full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
When was Celeste released?: Celeste was released in 2018.
How many reviews does Celeste have on Steam?: Celeste has 129,534 Steam reviews, of which 97% are positive.
Is Celeste worth playing?: Steam players rate Celeste 97% positive across 129,534 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.

Players looking for games like Celeste can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Action titles such as SANABI, Axiom Verge, Hollow Knight, Rain World, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Maddy Makes Games Inc.'s other releases and Maddy Makes Games Inc.'s wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Celeste 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 Celeste 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.

Matched from shared Steam tags and primary genre. Review count breaks ties; it is not a personal recommendation score.