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Action indie game KUNAI launched in 2020 from developer turtleblaze and publisher The Arcade Crew. It has 601 Steam reviews with 79% positive, a mostly positive rating, and an initial price of $16.99.
Overview
KUNAI is a 2020 Action game developed by TurtleBlaze and published by The Arcade Crew. On Steam it has gathered 601 player reviews, 79% 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 $17. The pairing of developer TurtleBlaze with publisher The Arcade Crew 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 23,000 to 55,000 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, KUNAI can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
601
Positive
79%
Steam appid
1001800
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.023K to 55K
units (median: 39K)
≈ $227K to $531K modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2020 | +15 |
| price_$17 | 0 |
| 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 KUNAI at roughly 23,000 to 55,000 copies, with a median around 39,000, derived from its 601 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $379K 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
1 observed day · window low $3.39Across 1 observed UTC day from 2026-09-04 to 2026-09-04, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $3.39 to $3.39. The tracked-window low was $3.39 on 2026-09-04.
Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.
Where to buy
Affiliate disclosure- Steam reference -80%$3.39 Buy
- GOG.com -80%$3.39 Buy
- Humble Store$16.99 Buy
- Green Man Gaming
- Fanatical
Latest tracked store observations (2026-09-04 07:25 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 KUNAI sold?
- indielist estimates KUNAI has sold between 23,439 and 54,691 units (median 39,065), derived from its 601 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed KUNAI?
- KUNAI was developed by TurtleBlaze and published by The Arcade Crew.
- Who published KUNAI?
- KUNAI was published by The Arcade Crew, developed by TurtleBlaze. See The Arcade Crew's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was KUNAI released?
- KUNAI was released in 2020.
- How many reviews does KUNAI have on Steam?
- KUNAI has 601 Steam reviews, of which 79% are positive.
- Is KUNAI worth playing?
- Steam players rate KUNAI 79% positive across 601 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 KUNAI 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, TurtleBlaze's other releases and The Arcade Crew's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where KUNAI 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 KUNAI 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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