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Action indie game Iron Fisticle launched in 2014 from developer confused-pelican and publisher Curve Games. It has 351 Steam reviews marked mixed, and its $8.99 initial price places it in the budget action game range.
Overview
Iron Fisticle is a 2014 Action game developed by Confused Pelican and published by Curve Games. On Steam it has gathered 352 player reviews, 83% of them positive, which counts as a mostly positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $9. The pairing of developer Confused Pelican with publisher Curve Games 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 16,000 to 37,000 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, Iron Fisticle can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
352
Positive
83%
Steam appid
306700
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.016K to 37K
units (median: 26K)
≈ $81K to $190K modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2014 | +30 |
| price_$9 | -5 |
| positive_83% | 0 |
| 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 Iron Fisticle at roughly 16,000 to 37,000 copies, with a median around 26,000, derived from its 352 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $136K 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
5 observed days · window low $1.34Across 5 observed UTC days from 2026-08-06 to 2026-09-03, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $1.34 to $1.34. The tracked-window low was $1.34 on 2026-08-06.
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
ActionIndie
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Iron Fisticle sold?
- indielist estimates Iron Fisticle has sold between 15,840 and 36,960 units (median 26,400), derived from its 352 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Iron Fisticle?
- Iron Fisticle was developed by Confused Pelican and published by Curve Games.
- Who published Iron Fisticle?
- Iron Fisticle was published by Curve Games, developed by Confused Pelican. See Curve Games's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was Iron Fisticle released?
- Iron Fisticle was released in 2014.
- How many reviews does Iron Fisticle have on Steam?
- Iron Fisticle has 352 Steam reviews, of which 83% are positive.
- Is Iron Fisticle worth playing?
- Steam players rate Iron Fisticle 83% positive across 352 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 Iron Fisticle 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, Confused Pelican's other releases and Curve Games's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Iron Fisticle 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 Iron Fisticle 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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