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Action indie game Neon Sundown focuses on its genre rather than tag-defined niches, with no Steam tags listed in the provided data. Released in 2022 by developer ben-nichols and publisher bn-games, it has 370 Steam reviews marked mixed and an initial $4.99 budget price.
Overview
Neon Sundown is a 2022 Action game developed by Ben Nichols and published by BN Games. On Steam it has gathered 372 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 mac, windows, and launched at $5. The pairing of developer Ben Nichols with publisher BN 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 7,000 to 16,000 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, Neon Sundown can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
372
Positive
82%
Steam appid
1721870
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.07K to 16K
units (median: 11K)
≈ $19K to $45K modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2022 | 0 |
| price_$5 | -20 |
| positive_82% | 0 |
| final NB | 30 |
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 Neon Sundown at roughly 7,000 to 16,000 copies, with a median around 11,000, derived from its 372 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $32K 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 $4.99Across 14 observed UTC days from 2026-07-15 to 2026-09-01, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $4.99 to $4.99. The tracked-window low was $4.99 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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Platforms
macwindows
Genres
ActionIndie
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Neon Sundown sold?
- indielist estimates Neon Sundown has sold between 6,696 and 15,624 units (median 11,160), derived from its 372 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Neon Sundown?
- Neon Sundown was developed by Ben Nichols and published by BN Games.
- Who published Neon Sundown?
- Neon Sundown was published by BN Games, developed by Ben Nichols. See BN Games's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was Neon Sundown released?
- Neon Sundown was released in 2022.
- How many reviews does Neon Sundown have on Steam?
- Neon Sundown has 372 Steam reviews, of which 82% are positive.
- Is Neon Sundown worth playing?
- Steam players rate Neon Sundown 82% positive across 372 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 Neon Sundown 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, Ben Nichols's other releases and BN Games's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Neon Sundown 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 Neon Sundown 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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