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Action indie game Noobs Want to Live launched in 2023 from gd-studio and publisher Lightning Games. With 4,961 Steam reviews at 89% positive and a $4.99 initial price, it offers a budget option with a very positive player signal.
Overview
Noobs Want to Live is a 2023 Action game developed by 元气弹工作室(GD Studio) and published by Lightning Games. On Steam it has gathered 4,589 player reviews, 89% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on mac, windows, and launched at $5. The pairing of developer 元气弹工作室(GD Studio) with publisher Lightning 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 110,000 to 257,000 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, Noobs Want to Live can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
4,589
Positive
89%
Steam appid
1737340
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.0110K to 257K
units (median: 184K)
≈ $314K to $732K modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2023 | 0 |
| price_$5 | -20 |
| positive_89% | +10 |
| final NB | 40 |
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 Noobs Want to Live at roughly 110,000 to 257,000 copies, with a median around 184,000, derived from its 4,589 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $523K 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
16 observed days · window low $3.24Across 16 observed UTC days from 2026-06-09 to 2026-07-22, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $3.24 to $4.99. The tracked-window low was $3.24 on 2026-06-09.
Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.
Where to buy
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Platforms
macwindows
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Noobs Want to Live sold?
- indielist estimates Noobs Want to Live has sold between 110,136 and 256,984 units (median 183,560), derived from its 4,589 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Noobs Want to Live?
- Noobs Want to Live was developed by 元气弹工作室(GD Studio) and published by Lightning Games.
- Who published Noobs Want to Live?
- Noobs Want to Live was published by Lightning Games, developed by 元气弹工作室(GD Studio). See Lightning Games's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was Noobs Want to Live released?
- Noobs Want to Live was released in 2023.
- How many reviews does Noobs Want to Live have on Steam?
- Noobs Want to Live has 4,589 Steam reviews, of which 89% are positive.
- Is Noobs Want to Live worth playing?
- Steam players rate Noobs Want to Live 89% positive across 4,589 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 Noobs Want to Live can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Action titles such as Rust, Terraria, Phasmophobia, ARK: Survival Evolved, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, 元气弹工作室(GD Studio)'s other releases and Lightning Games's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Noobs Want to Live 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 Noobs Want to Live 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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