Islands of the Caliph
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Action indie game Islands of the Caliph launched in 2023 from Schmidt Workshops, with the developer also serving as publisher. Its 270 Steam reviews are 89% positive, giving it a modest but strong signal, and the $9.99 price fits a budget hidden-gem angle.
Overview
Islands of the Caliph is a 2023 Action game developed by Schmidt Workshops and published by Schmidt Workshops. On Steam it has gathered 272 player reviews, 89% 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 $10. The pairing of developer Schmidt Workshops with publisher Schmidt Workshops 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 9,000 to 21,000 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, Islands of the Caliph can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
272
Positive
89%
Steam appid
1845670
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.09K to 21K
units (median: 15K)
≈ $51K to $120K modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2023 | 0 |
| price_$10 | -5 |
| positive_89% | +10 |
| final NB | 55 |
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 Islands of the Caliph at roughly 9,000 to 21,000 copies, with a median around 15,000, derived from its 272 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $85K 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
13 observed days · window low $6.49Across 13 observed UTC days from 2026-07-17 to 2026-09-05, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $6.49 to $9.99. The tracked-window low was $6.49 on 2026-07-17.
Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.
Where to buy
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Platforms
windows
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Islands of the Caliph sold?
- indielist estimates Islands of the Caliph has sold between 8,976 and 20,944 units (median 14,960), derived from its 272 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Islands of the Caliph?
- Islands of the Caliph was developed by Schmidt Workshops and published by Schmidt Workshops.
- Who published Islands of the Caliph?
- Islands of the Caliph was published by Schmidt Workshops, developed by Schmidt Workshops. See Schmidt Workshops's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was Islands of the Caliph released?
- Islands of the Caliph was released in 2023.
- How many reviews does Islands of the Caliph have on Steam?
- Islands of the Caliph has 272 Steam reviews, of which 89% are positive.
- Is Islands of the Caliph worth playing?
- Steam players rate Islands of the Caliph 89% positive across 272 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 Islands of the Caliph 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, Schmidt Workshops's other releases and Schmidt Workshops's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Islands of the Caliph 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 Islands of the Caliph 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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