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An indie game from Studio Floris Kaayk, Next Space Rebels launched in 2021 with publishing by Balor Games. It has 361 Steam reviews at 86% positive, a modest but strong signal for players looking for an underrated indie release at $19.99.
Overview
Next Space Rebels is a 2021 Indie game developed by Studio Floris Kaayk and published by Balor Games. On Steam it has gathered 327 player reviews, 85% 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 Studio Floris Kaayk with publisher Balor Games 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 15,000 to 34,000 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, Next Space Rebels can be compared against similar Indie titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
327
Positive
85%
Steam appid
1422430
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.015K to 34K
units (median: 25K)
≈ $168K to $392K modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2021 | +15 |
| price_$20 | 0 |
| positive_85% | +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 Next Space Rebels at roughly 15,000 to 34,000 copies, with a median around 25,000, derived from its 327 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $280K 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
7 observed days · window low $5.97Across 7 observed UTC days from 2026-07-22 to 2026-09-03, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $5.97 to $19.99. The tracked-window low was $5.97 on 2026-07-22.
Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.
Where to buy
Affiliate disclosure- Green Man Gaming -70%$5.97 Buy
- GOG.com -70%$5.99 Buy
- Steam reference$19.99 Buy
- Humble Store$19.99 Buy
- Fanatical
Latest tracked store observations (2026-09-03 06:17 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
IndieSimulation
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Next Space Rebels sold?
- indielist estimates Next Space Rebels has sold between 14,715 and 34,335 units (median 24,525), derived from its 327 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Next Space Rebels?
- Next Space Rebels was developed by Studio Floris Kaayk and published by Balor Games.
- Who published Next Space Rebels?
- Next Space Rebels was published by Balor Games, developed by Studio Floris Kaayk. See Balor Games's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was Next Space Rebels released?
- Next Space Rebels was released in 2021.
- How many reviews does Next Space Rebels have on Steam?
- Next Space Rebels has 327 Steam reviews, of which 85% are positive.
- Is Next Space Rebels worth playing?
- Steam players rate Next Space Rebels 85% positive across 327 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 Next Space Rebels 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, Studio Floris Kaayk's other releases and Balor Games's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Next Space Rebels 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 Next Space Rebels 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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