Hardspace: Shipbreaker
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Simulation indie game focused on shipbreaking, Hardspace: Shipbreaker was released in 2022 by Blackbird Interactive, which is also listed as publisher. It has 22,023 Steam reviews with 89% positive, and an initial price of $34.99.
Overview
Hardspace: Shipbreaker is a 2022 Simulation game developed by Blackbird Interactive and published by Blackbird Interactive. On Steam it has gathered 22,026 player reviews, 89% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Simulation category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $35. The pairing of developer Blackbird Interactive with publisher Blackbird Interactive is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Simulation projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 991,000 to 2.3 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, Hardspace: Shipbreaker can be compared against similar Simulation titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
22,026
Positive
89%
Steam appid
1161580
Engine
Unknown
Sales estimate
vv1.0991K to 2.3M
units (median: 1.7M)
≈ $19.8M to $46.2M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2022 | 0 |
| price_$35 | +15 |
| positive_89% | +10 |
| final NB | 75 |
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 Hardspace: Shipbreaker at roughly 991,000 to 2.3 million copies, with a median around 1.7 million, derived from its 22,026 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $33.0M 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 $21.17Over the last 90 days the price ranged from $21.17 to $34.99, averaging $32.31 across 2 discount windows, with a historical low of $21.17 on 2026-05-04.
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Where to buy
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Platforms
windows
Genres
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Hardspace: Shipbreaker sold?
- indielist estimates Hardspace: Shipbreaker has sold between 991,170 and 2,312,730 units (median 1,651,950), derived from its 22,026 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter vv1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Hardspace: Shipbreaker?
- Hardspace: Shipbreaker was developed by Blackbird Interactive and published by Blackbird Interactive.
- When was Hardspace: Shipbreaker released?
- Hardspace: Shipbreaker was released in 2022.
- How many reviews does Hardspace: Shipbreaker have on Steam?
- Hardspace: Shipbreaker has 22,026 Steam reviews, of which 89% are positive.
Ecosystem
indielist positions Hardspace: Shipbreaker within the Simulation segment so players can surface comparable titles by shared tags and genre rather than by storefront promotion. On the developer side, Blackbird Interactive's other releases and Blackbird Interactive's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Hardspace: Shipbreaker 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 Hardspace: Shipbreaker page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Simulation 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.