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Action-focused gameplay defines Forspoken, a 2023 release from developer and publisher Square Enix. On Steam it has 8,464 reviews with 63% positive, rated mixed, and it launched with a $69.99 initial price.
Overview
Forspoken is a 2023 Action game developed by Square Enix and published by Square Enix. On Steam it has gathered 8,466 player reviews, 63% of them positive, which counts as a mixed reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $70. 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 Action projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 279,000 to 652,000 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, Forspoken can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
8,466
Positive
63%
Steam appid
1680880
Engine
Unknown
Sales estimate
vv1.0279K to 652K
units (median: 466K)
≈ $11.2M to $26.1M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2023 | 0 |
| price_$70 | +15 |
| positive_63% | -10 |
| final NB | 55 |
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 Forspoken at roughly 279,000 to 652,000 copies, with a median around 466,000, derived from its 8,466 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $18.6M 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 $42.01Over the last 90 days the price ranged from $42.01 to $69.99, averaging $66.56 across 3 discount windows, with a historical low of $42.01 on 2026-04-24.
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Where to buy
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Platforms
windows
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Forspoken sold?
- indielist estimates Forspoken has sold between 279,378 and 651,882 units (median 465,630), derived from its 8,466 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter vv1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Forspoken?
- Forspoken was developed by Square Enix and published by Square Enix.
- When was Forspoken released?
- Forspoken was released in 2023.
- How many reviews does Forspoken have on Steam?
- Forspoken has 8,466 Steam reviews, of which 63% are positive.
Ecosystem
indielist positions Forspoken within the Action 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 Forspoken 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 Forspoken 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.