How many copies has Drone Swarm sold?

indielist estimates Drone Swarm has sold between 9,207 and 21,483 units (median 15,345), derived from its 279 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.

Who published Drone Swarm?

Drone Swarm was published by astragon Entertainment, developed by stillalive studios. See astragon Entertainment's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.

When was Drone Swarm released?

Drone Swarm was released in 2020.

How many reviews does Drone Swarm have on Steam?

Drone Swarm has 279 Steam reviews, of which 63% are positive.

Is Drone Swarm worth playing?

Steam players rate Drone Swarm 63% positive across 279 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.

Drone Swarm

Oct 20, 2020 Indie $16.99

Developer stillalive studios Publisher astragon Entertainment

Profile updated Aug 2026

Indie game Drone Swarm launched in 2020 from stillalive-studios, with astragon-entertainment as publisher. Its Steam footprint is modest at 278 reviews and listed as mixed with 0% positive, and the initial price was $16.99.

Drone Swarm is a 2020 Indie game developed by stillalive studios and published by astragon Entertainment. On Steam it has gathered 279 player reviews, 63% of them positive, which counts as a mixed reception among indie titles in the Indie category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $17. The pairing of developer stillalive studios with publisher astragon Entertainment 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 9,000 to 21,000 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, Drone Swarm can be compared against similar Indie titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.

Reviews

279

Positive

63%

Steam appid

401760

Engine

Unknown

Players (snapshot)

Unavailable

Sales estimate

v1.0

9K to 21K

units (median: 15K)

≈ $89K to $208K modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)

9K median 21K

+ How is this calculated?

279 reviews × NB(55) = 15,345 median units

Factor	Adjustment
base	+50
year_2020	+15
price_$17	0
positive_63%	-10
final NB	55

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 Drone Swarm at roughly 9,000 to 21,000 copies, with a median around 15,000, derived from its 279 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $149K 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 $3.39

Across 5 observed UTC days from 2026-08-10 to 2026-09-07, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $3.39 to $4.99. The tracked-window low was $3.39 on 2026-08-10.

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

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Platforms

windows

Genres

IndieStrategy

Frequently asked questions

How many copies has Drone Swarm sold?: indielist estimates Drone Swarm has sold between 9,207 and 21,483 units (median 15,345), derived from its 279 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
Who developed Drone Swarm?: Drone Swarm was developed by stillalive studios and published by astragon Entertainment.
Who published Drone Swarm?: Drone Swarm was published by astragon Entertainment, developed by stillalive studios. See astragon Entertainment's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
When was Drone Swarm released?: Drone Swarm was released in 2020.
How many reviews does Drone Swarm have on Steam?: Drone Swarm has 279 Steam reviews, of which 63% are positive.
Is Drone Swarm worth playing?: Steam players rate Drone Swarm 63% positive across 279 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 Drone Swarm 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, stillalive studios's other releases and astragon Entertainment's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Drone Swarm 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 Drone Swarm 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.

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