How many copies has Ice Lakes sold?

indielist estimates Ice Lakes has sold between 61,020 and 142,380 units (median 101,700), derived from its 1,130 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.

Who published Ice Lakes?

Ice Lakes was published by Paradox Interactive, developed by Iceflake Studios. See Paradox Interactive's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.

When was Ice Lakes released?

Ice Lakes was released in 2016.

How many reviews does Ice Lakes have on Steam?

Ice Lakes has 1,130 Steam reviews, of which 86% are positive.

Is Ice Lakes worth playing?

Steam players rate Ice Lakes 86% positive across 1,130 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.

Ice Lakes

Apr 19, 2016 Indie $14.99

Developer Iceflake Studios Publisher Paradox Interactive

Profile updated Sep 2026

Ice Lakes is an indie game from Iceflake Studios centered on ice fishing. Released in 2016 and published by Paradox Interactive, it has 1,122 Steam reviews listed as mixed and launched at an initial price of $14.99.

Ice Lakes is a 2016 Indie game developed by Iceflake Studios and published by Paradox Interactive. On Steam it has gathered 1,130 player reviews, 86% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Indie category. The game is available on linux, mac, windows, and launched at $15. The pairing of developer Iceflake Studios with publisher Paradox Interactive is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Indie projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 61,000 to 142,000 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, Ice Lakes can be compared against similar Indie titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.

Reviews

1,130

Positive

86%

Steam appid

393430

Engine

Unknown

Players (snapshot)

Unavailable

Sales estimate

v1.0

61K to 142K

units (median: 102K)

≈ $522K to $1.2M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)

61K median 142K

+ How is this calculated?

1,130 reviews × NB(90) = 101,700 median units

Factor	Adjustment
base	+50
year_2016	+30
price_$15	0
positive_86%	+10
final NB	90

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 Ice Lakes at roughly 61,000 to 142,000 copies, with a median around 102,000, derived from its 1,130 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $871K 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

7 observed days · window low $3.74

Across 7 observed UTC days from 2026-09-11 to 2026-10-23, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $3.74 to $14.99. The tracked-window low was $3.74 on 2026-09-18.

Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.

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Platforms

linuxmacwindows

Genres

IndieSimulation Sports

Frequently asked questions

How many copies has Ice Lakes sold?: indielist estimates Ice Lakes has sold between 61,020 and 142,380 units (median 101,700), derived from its 1,130 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
Who developed Ice Lakes?: Ice Lakes was developed by Iceflake Studios and published by Paradox Interactive.
Who published Ice Lakes?: Ice Lakes was published by Paradox Interactive, developed by Iceflake Studios. See Paradox Interactive's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
When was Ice Lakes released?: Ice Lakes was released in 2016.
How many reviews does Ice Lakes have on Steam?: Ice Lakes has 1,130 Steam reviews, of which 86% are positive.
Is Ice Lakes worth playing?: Steam players rate Ice Lakes 86% positive across 1,130 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.

Players looking for games like Ice Lakes can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Indie titles such as Stardew Valley, Euro Truck Simulator 2, Project Zomboid, Undertale, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Iceflake Studios's other releases and Paradox Interactive's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Ice Lakes 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 Ice Lakes page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Indie 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.

Matched from shared Steam tags and primary genre. Review count breaks ties; it is not a personal recommendation score.