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Action-focused play defines Moonlighter, a 2018 release with 21,774 Steam reviews and an 82% mostly positive rating. It is self-published by developer unknown, with the developer slug listed as unknown, and launched at an initial price of $19.99.
Overview
Moonlighter is a 2018 Action game developed by Digital Sun and published by 11 bit studios. On Steam it has gathered 17,241 player reviews, 81% of them positive, which counts as a mostly positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on linux, mac, windows, and launched at $20. The pairing of developer Digital Sun with publisher 11 bit studios 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 672,000 to 1.6 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, Moonlighter can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
17,241
Positive
81%
Steam appid
606150
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.0672K to 1.6M
units (median: 1.1M)
≈ $7.7M to $17.9M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2018 | +15 |
| price_$20 | 0 |
| positive_81% | 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 Moonlighter at roughly 672,000 to 1.6 million copies, with a median around 1.1 million, derived from its 17,241 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $12.8M 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
49 observed days · window low FreeAcross 49 observed UTC days from 2026-06-10 to 2026-09-03, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from Free to $19.99. The tracked-window low was Free on 2026-08-06.
Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.
Where to buy
Affiliate disclosure- Steam reference -90%$1.99 Buy
- Green Man Gaming -85%$2.99 Buy
- GOG.com -85%$2.99 Buy
- Humble Store$19.99 Buy
- Fanatical -10%$20.86 Buy
Latest tracked store observations (2026-07-05 05:12 UTC to 2026-09-03 05:41 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
linuxmacwindows
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Moonlighter sold?
- indielist estimates Moonlighter has sold between 672,399 and 1,568,931 units (median 1,120,665), derived from its 17,241 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Moonlighter?
- Moonlighter was developed by Digital Sun and published by 11 bit studios.
- Who published Moonlighter?
- Moonlighter was published by 11 bit studios, developed by Digital Sun. See 11 bit studios's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was Moonlighter released?
- Moonlighter was released in 2018.
- How many reviews does Moonlighter have on Steam?
- Moonlighter has 17,241 Steam reviews, of which 81% are positive.
- Is Moonlighter worth playing?
- Steam players rate Moonlighter 81% positive across 17,241 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 Moonlighter 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, Digital Sun's other releases and 11 bit studios's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Moonlighter 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 Moonlighter 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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