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Action indie game Lords of Exile launched in 2024 from Squidbit Works, with PID Games as publisher. Its Steam footprint is modest but positive: 162 reviews at 82% positive, rated Mostly Positive, with an initial price of $14.99.
Overview
Lords of Exile is a 2024 Action game developed by Squidbit Works and published by PID Games. On Steam it has gathered 169 player reviews, 82% 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 $15. The pairing of developer Squidbit Works with publisher PID 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 5,000 to 12,000 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, Lords of Exile can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
169
Positive
82%
Steam appid
1329360
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.05K to 12K
units (median: 8K)
≈ $43K to $101K modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2024 | 0 |
| price_$15 | 0 |
| positive_82% | 0 |
| final NB | 50 |
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 Lords of Exile at roughly 5,000 to 12,000 copies, with a median around 8,000, derived from its 169 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $72K 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
14 observed days · window low $2.46Across 14 observed UTC days from 2026-07-15 to 2026-09-01, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $2.46 to $2.99. The tracked-window low was $2.46 on 2026-07-15.
Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.
Where to buy
Affiliate disclosure- Steam reference -80%$2.99 Buy
- GOG.com -80%$2.99 Buy
- Humble Store$14.99 Buy
- Fanatical -10%$15.66 Buy
- Green Man Gaming
Latest tracked store observations (2026-09-01 06:08 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
Genres
ActionIndie
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Lords of Exile sold?
- indielist estimates Lords of Exile has sold between 5,070 and 11,830 units (median 8,450), derived from its 169 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Lords of Exile?
- Lords of Exile was developed by Squidbit Works and published by PID Games.
- Who published Lords of Exile?
- Lords of Exile was published by PID Games, developed by Squidbit Works. See PID Games's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was Lords of Exile released?
- Lords of Exile was released in 2024.
- How many reviews does Lords of Exile have on Steam?
- Lords of Exile has 169 Steam reviews, of which 82% are positive.
- Is Lords of Exile worth playing?
- Steam players rate Lords of Exile 82% positive across 169 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 Lords of Exile 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, Squidbit Works's other releases and PID Games's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Lords of Exile 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 Lords of Exile 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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