New Star™ Manager
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Management-focused indie game New Star™ Manager launched in 2018 from developer new-star-games-ltd. Steam shows 499 reviews with a mixed label and 0% positive, with Five Aces Publishing Ltd as publisher and an initial price of $19.99.
Overview
New Star™ Manager is a 2018 Indie game developed by New Star Games Ltd. and published by Five Aces Publishing Ltd.. On Steam it has gathered 503 player reviews, 87% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Indie category. The game is available on mac, windows, and launched at $20. The pairing of developer New Star Games Ltd. with publisher Five Aces Publishing Ltd. 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 23,000 to 53,000 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, New Star™ Manager can be compared against similar Indie titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
503
Positive
87%
Steam appid
883130
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.023K to 53K
units (median: 38K)
≈ $258K to $603K 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_87% | +10 |
| final NB | 75 |
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 New Star™ Manager at roughly 23,000 to 53,000 copies, with a median around 38,000, derived from its 503 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $431K 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
6 observed days · window low $19.99Across 6 observed UTC days from 2026-07-31 to 2026-09-04, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $19.99 to $19.99. The tracked-window low was $19.99 on 2026-07-31.
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 (2026-09-04 07:20 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
macwindows
Genres
IndieSimulationSports
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has New Star™ Manager sold?
- indielist estimates New Star™ Manager has sold between 22,635 and 52,815 units (median 37,725), derived from its 503 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed New Star™ Manager?
- New Star™ Manager was developed by New Star Games Ltd. and published by Five Aces Publishing Ltd..
- Who published New Star™ Manager?
- New Star™ Manager was published by Five Aces Publishing Ltd., developed by New Star Games Ltd.. See Five Aces Publishing Ltd.'s full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was New Star™ Manager released?
- New Star™ Manager was released in 2018.
- How many reviews does New Star™ Manager have on Steam?
- New Star™ Manager has 503 Steam reviews, of which 87% are positive.
- Is New Star™ Manager worth playing?
- Steam players rate New Star™ Manager 87% positive across 503 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 New Star™ Manager 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, New Star Games Ltd.'s other releases and Five Aces Publishing Ltd.'s wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where New Star™ Manager 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 New Star™ Manager 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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