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RPG entry FINAL FANTASY IX launched on Steam in 2016 from Square Enix as both developer and publisher. It has 13,851 Steam reviews with a 95% positive rating, categorized as overwhelmingly positive, and an initial price of $20.99.
Overview
FINAL FANTASY IX is a 2016 RPG game developed by Square Enix and published by Square Enix. On Steam it has gathered 13,865 player reviews, 95% of them positive, which counts as a overwhelmingly positive reception among indie titles in the RPG category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $21. The pairing of developer Square Enix 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 RPG projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 873,000 to 2.0 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, FINAL FANTASY IX can be compared against similar RPG titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
13,865
Positive
95%
Steam appid
377840
Engine
Unknown
Sales estimate
vv1.0873K to 2.0M
units (median: 1.5M)
≈ $10.5M to $24.4M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2016 | +30 |
| price_$21 | +5 |
| positive_95% | +10 |
| genre_RPG | +10 |
| final NB | 105 |
Confidence range: median × [0.6, 1.4]. Boundary protection: NB ∈ [15, 150].
Methodology & limitations
Sales estimates use a multi-factor Boxleiter method against public Steam review counts.
They are not authoritative sales data. Actual sales can deviate by
±50% in either direction. Free-to-play games, deeply discounted titles, and games
with heavy bundle distribution have larger error margins. Algorithm version
v1.0.
indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for FINAL FANTASY IX at roughly 873,000 to 2.0 million copies, with a median around 1.5 million, derived from its 13,865 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $17.5M 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 $13.24Over the last 90 days the price ranged from $13.24 to $20.99, averaging $19.68 across 3 discount windows, with a historical low of $13.24 on 2026-05-21.
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Where to buy
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- Humble Store$20.99 Buy
- GOG.com$20.99 Buy
- Green Man Gaming
- Fanatical
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Platforms
windows
Genres
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has FINAL FANTASY IX sold?
- indielist estimates FINAL FANTASY IX has sold between 873,495 and 2,038,155 units (median 1,455,825), derived from its 13,865 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter vv1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed FINAL FANTASY IX?
- FINAL FANTASY IX was developed by Square Enix and published by Square Enix.
- When was FINAL FANTASY IX released?
- FINAL FANTASY IX was released in 2016.
- How many reviews does FINAL FANTASY IX have on Steam?
- FINAL FANTASY IX has 13,865 Steam reviews, of which 95% are positive.
Ecosystem
indielist positions FINAL FANTASY IX within the RPG segment so players can surface comparable titles by shared tags and genre rather than by storefront promotion. On the developer side, Square Enix's other releases and Square Enix's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where FINAL FANTASY IX 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 FINAL FANTASY IX page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next RPG 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.