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Action indie game Gish comes from developer cryptic-sea and publisher chronic-logic. Released in 2007 at an initial price of $9.99, it has 304 Steam reviews listed as 0% positive, mixed.
Overview
Gish is a 2007 Action game developed by Cryptic Sea and published by Chronic Logic. On Steam it has gathered 302 player reviews, 59% of them positive, which counts as a mixed reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on mac, windows, and launched at $10. The pairing of developer Cryptic Sea with publisher Chronic Logic 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 12,000 to 27,000 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, Gish can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
302
Positive
59%
Steam appid
9500
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.012K to 27K
units (median: 20K)
≈ $67K to $157K modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2007 | +30 |
| price_$10 | -5 |
| positive_59% | -10 |
| final NB | 65 |
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 Gish at roughly 12,000 to 27,000 copies, with a median around 20,000, derived from its 302 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $112K 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
15 observed days · window low $9.99Across 15 observed UTC days from 2026-07-15 to 2026-09-05, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $9.99 to $9.99. The tracked-window low was $9.99 on 2026-07-15.
Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.
Where to buy
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- Humble Store
- GOG.com
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Platforms
macwindows
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Gish sold?
- indielist estimates Gish has sold between 11,778 and 27,482 units (median 19,630), derived from its 302 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Gish?
- Gish was developed by Cryptic Sea and published by Chronic Logic.
- Who published Gish?
- Gish was published by Chronic Logic, developed by Cryptic Sea. See Chronic Logic's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was Gish released?
- Gish was released in 2007.
- How many reviews does Gish have on Steam?
- Gish has 302 Steam reviews, of which 59% are positive.
- Is Gish worth playing?
- Steam players rate Gish 59% positive across 302 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.
Ecosystem
Players looking for games like Gish can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Action titles such as Terraria, Rust, Phasmophobia, The Forest, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Cryptic Sea's other releases and Chronic Logic's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Gish 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 Gish 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.
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