Holdfast: Nations At War
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Action-focused indie game Holdfast: Nations At War launched in 2020 from Anvil Game Studios, which is also the publisher. It has 28,548 Steam reviews with 90% positive sentiment, and its initial price was $19.99.
Overview
Holdfast: Nations At War is a 2020 Action game developed by Anvil Game Studios and published by Anvil Game Studios. On Steam it has gathered 26,563 player reviews, 90% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $20. The pairing of developer Anvil Game Studios with publisher Anvil Game Studios 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 1.2 million to 2.8 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, Holdfast: Nations At War can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
26,563
Positive
90%
Steam appid
589290
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.01.2M to 2.8M
units (median: 2.0M)
≈ $13.6M to $31.8M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2020 | +15 |
| price_$20 | 0 |
| positive_90% | +10 |
| final NB | 75 |
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 Holdfast: Nations At War at roughly 1.2 million to 2.8 million copies, with a median around 2.0 million, derived from its 26,563 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $22.7M 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
50 observed days · window low $9.99Across 50 observed UTC days from 2026-06-10 to 2026-09-04, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $9.99 to $19.99. The tracked-window low was $9.99 on 2026-06-10.
Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.
Where to buy
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Platforms
windows
Genres
ActionIndieMassively MultiplayerRPGSimulationStrategy
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Holdfast: Nations At War sold?
- indielist estimates Holdfast: Nations At War has sold between 1,195,335 and 2,789,115 units (median 1,992,225), derived from its 26,563 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Holdfast: Nations At War?
- Holdfast: Nations At War was developed by Anvil Game Studios and published by Anvil Game Studios.
- Who published Holdfast: Nations At War?
- Holdfast: Nations At War was published by Anvil Game Studios, developed by Anvil Game Studios. See Anvil Game Studios's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was Holdfast: Nations At War released?
- Holdfast: Nations At War was released in 2020.
- How many reviews does Holdfast: Nations At War have on Steam?
- Holdfast: Nations At War has 26,563 Steam reviews, of which 90% are positive.
- Is Holdfast: Nations At War worth playing?
- Steam players rate Holdfast: Nations At War 90% positive across 26,563 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 Holdfast: Nations At War 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, Anvil Game Studios's other releases and Anvil Game Studios's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Holdfast: Nations At War 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 Holdfast: Nations At War 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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