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IXION is a 2022 simulation and strategy game. It has received 14,753 reviews on Steam. The developer and publisher attribution are not yet imported.
Overview
IXION is a 2022 Indie game developed by Bulwark Studios and published by Kasedo Games. On Steam it has gathered 15,003 player reviews, 79% of them positive, which counts as a mostly positive reception among indie titles in the Indie category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $35. The pairing of developer Bulwark Studios with publisher Kasedo Games 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 585,000 to 1.4 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, IXION can be compared against similar Indie titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
15,003
Positive
79%
Steam appid
1113120
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
287
Historical snapshot ·
Sales estimate
v1.0585K to 1.4M
units (median: 975K)
≈ $11.7M to $27.3M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2022 | 0 |
| price_$35 | +15 |
| positive_79% | 0 |
| final NB | 65 |
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 IXION at roughly 585,000 to 1.4 million copies, with a median around 975,000, derived from its 15,003 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $19.5M 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
54 observed days · window low $12.24Across 54 observed UTC days from 2026-05-31 to 2026-07-24, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $12.24 to $34.31. The tracked-window low was $12.24 on 2026-05-31.
Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.
Where to buy
Affiliate disclosure- GOG.com -65%$12.25 Buy
- Fanatical -12%$34.14 Buy
- Steam reference$34.99 Buy
- Humble Store$34.99 Buy
- Green Man Gaming
Latest tracked store observations (2026-07-24 04:13 UTC), cheapest first. Prices may have changed since observation. Some are affiliate links — we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. Learn more.
Platforms
windows
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has IXION sold?
- indielist estimates IXION has sold between 585,117 and 1,365,273 units (median 975,195), derived from its 15,003 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed IXION?
- IXION was developed by Bulwark Studios and published by Kasedo Games.
- Who published IXION?
- IXION was published by Kasedo Games, developed by Bulwark Studios. See Kasedo Games's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was IXION released?
- IXION was released in 2022.
- How many reviews does IXION have on Steam?
- IXION has 15,003 Steam reviews, of which 79% are positive.
- Is IXION worth playing?
- Steam players rate IXION 79% positive across 15,003 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 IXION can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Indie titles such as Foundation, Endzone - A World Apart, Planetbase, Oxygen Not Included, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Bulwark Studios's other releases and Kasedo Games's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where IXION 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 IXION 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.
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