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This JRPG, released in 2014, features a linear structure and a female protagonist. Developed and published by Square Enix, it has garnered 19,475 Steam reviews with 75% positive feedback.
Overview
FINAL FANTASY® XIII is a 2014 RPG game developed by Square Enix and published by Square Enix. On Steam it has gathered 19,513 player reviews, 75% of them positive, which counts as a mostly positive reception among indie titles in the RPG category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $16. 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 1.1 million to 2.5 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® XIII can be compared against similar RPG titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
19,513
Positive
75%
Steam appid
292120
Engine
Unknown
Sales estimate
vv1.01.1M to 2.5M
units (median: 1.8M)
≈ $9.6M to $22.5M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2014 | +30 |
| price_$16 | 0 |
| positive_75% | 0 |
| genre_RPG | +10 |
| final NB | 90 |
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® XIII at roughly 1.1 million to 2.5 million copies, with a median around 1.8 million, derived from its 19,513 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $16.0M 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 $9.95Over the last 90 days the price ranged from $9.95 to $15.99, averaging $15.42 across 1 discount window, with a historical low of $9.95 on 2026-05-23.
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Where to buy
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Platforms
windows
Tags
JRPGRPGFemale ProtagonistLinearGreat SoundtrackSingleplayerFantasyStory RichAdventureCinematicSci-fiActionThird PersonAtmosphericTurn-Based CombatAction RPGFuturisticTurn-BasedStrategyDifficult
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has FINAL FANTASY® XIII sold?
- indielist estimates FINAL FANTASY® XIII has sold between 1,053,702 and 2,458,638 units (median 1,756,170), derived from its 19,513 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter vv1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed FINAL FANTASY® XIII?
- FINAL FANTASY® XIII was developed by Square Enix and published by Square Enix.
- When was FINAL FANTASY® XIII released?
- FINAL FANTASY® XIII was released in 2014.
- How many reviews does FINAL FANTASY® XIII have on Steam?
- FINAL FANTASY® XIII has 19,513 Steam reviews, of which 75% are positive.
Ecosystem
indielist positions FINAL FANTASY® XIII 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® XIII 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® XIII 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.