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For players browsing new indie games, Malys is a 2025 indie game from Summerfall Studios. It has 169 Steam reviews with 80% positive sentiment, making it a modestly reviewed hidden-gem candidate, and it launched at $14.99 as a self-published release.
Overview
Malys is a 2025 Indie game developed by Summerfall Studios and published by Summerfall Studios. On Steam it has gathered 171 player reviews, 78% 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 $15. The pairing of developer Summerfall Studios with publisher Summerfall Studios 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 4,000 to 10,000 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, Malys can be compared against similar Indie titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
171
Positive
78%
Steam appid
3449690
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.04K to 10K
units (median: 7K)
≈ $35K to $82K modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2025 | -10 |
| price_$15 | 0 |
| positive_78% | 0 |
| final NB | 40 |
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 Malys at roughly 4,000 to 10,000 copies, with a median around 7,000, derived from its 171 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $59K 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 $14.99Across 14 observed UTC days from 2026-07-15 to 2026-09-01, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $14.99 to $14.99. The tracked-window low was $14.99 on 2026-07-15.
Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.
Where to buy
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- Green Man Gaming
- Fanatical
- Humble Store
- GOG.com
Latest tracked store observations (2026-09-01 06:49 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
IndieStrategy
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Malys sold?
- indielist estimates Malys has sold between 4,104 and 9,576 units (median 6,840), derived from its 171 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Malys?
- Malys was developed by Summerfall Studios and published by Summerfall Studios.
- Who published Malys?
- Malys was published by Summerfall Studios, developed by Summerfall Studios. See Summerfall Studios's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was Malys released?
- Malys was released in 2025.
- How many reviews does Malys have on Steam?
- Malys has 171 Steam reviews, of which 78% are positive.
- Is Malys worth playing?
- Steam players rate Malys 78% positive across 171 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 Malys can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Indie titles such as Stardew Valley, Euro Truck Simulator 2, Project Zomboid, Undertale, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Summerfall Studios's other releases and Summerfall Studios's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Malys 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 Malys 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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