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Nix Umbra is an action indie game released in 2021, developed and self-published by ilzard. Its 97 Steam reviews are 87% positive, earning a Very Positive rating from a modest review base. An initial price of $9.99 places it in the budget range.
Overview
Nix Umbra is a 2021 Action game developed by ilzard and published by ilzard. On Steam it has gathered 97 player reviews, 87% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $10. The pairing of developer ilzard with publisher ilzard 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 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, Nix Umbra can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
97
Positive
87%
Steam appid
1489600
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.04K to 10K
units (median: 7K)
≈ $23K to $54K modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2021 | +15 |
| price_$10 | -5 |
| positive_87% | +10 |
| final NB | 70 |
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 Nix Umbra at roughly 4,000 to 10,000 copies, with a median around 7,000, derived from its 97 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $39K 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
13 observed days · window low $2.49Across 13 observed UTC days from 2026-07-29 to 2026-10-21, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $2.49 to $9.99. The tracked-window low was $2.49 on 2026-09-16.
Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.
Where to buy
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Platforms
windows
Genres
ActionIndie
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Nix Umbra sold?
- indielist estimates Nix Umbra has sold between 4,074 and 9,506 units (median 6,790), derived from its 97 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Nix Umbra?
- Nix Umbra was developed by ilzard and published by ilzard.
- Who published Nix Umbra?
- Nix Umbra was published by ilzard, developed by ilzard. See ilzard's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was Nix Umbra released?
- Nix Umbra was released in 2021.
- How many reviews does Nix Umbra have on Steam?
- Nix Umbra has 97 Steam reviews, of which 87% are positive.
- Is Nix Umbra worth playing?
- Steam players rate Nix Umbra 87% positive across 97 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 Nix Umbra can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Action titles such as Terraria, Rust, Phasmophobia, Geometry Dash, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, ilzard's other releases and ilzard's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Nix Umbra 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 Nix Umbra 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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