How many copies has Novus Inceptio sold?

indielist estimates Novus Inceptio has sold between 59,022 and 137,718 units (median 98,370), derived from its 1,093 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.

Who published Novus Inceptio?

Novus Inceptio was published by McMagic Productions, developed by McMagic Productions. See McMagic Productions's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.

When was Novus Inceptio released?

Novus Inceptio was released in 2015.

How many reviews does Novus Inceptio have on Steam?

Novus Inceptio has 1,093 Steam reviews.

Novus Inceptio

Oct 5, 2015 Adventure $19.99

Developer McMagic Productions Publisher McMagic Productions

Profile updated Oct 2026

Novus Inceptio is an adventure indie game released in 2015, with an initial price of $19.99. Developed and published by mcmagic-productions, it has 1,093 Steam reviews; the supplied listing labels reception as mixed but reports 0% positive.

Novus Inceptio is a 2015 Adventure game developed by McMagic Productions and published by McMagic Productions. On Steam it has gathered 1,093 player reviews to date. The game is available on windows, and launched at $20. The pairing of developer McMagic Productions with publisher McMagic Productions is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Adventure projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 59,000 to 138,000 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, Novus Inceptio can be compared against similar Adventure titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.

Reviews

1,093

Positive

Unknown

Steam appid

386590

Engine

Unknown

Players (snapshot)

Unavailable

Sales estimate

v1.0

59K to 138K

units (median: 98K)

≈ $674K to $1.6M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)

59K median 138K

+ How is this calculated?

1,093 reviews × NB(90) = 98,370 median units

Factor	Adjustment
base	+50
year_2015	+30
price_$20	0
positive_80%	0
genre_Adventure	+10
final NB	90

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 Novus Inceptio at roughly 59,000 to 138,000 copies, with a median around 98,000, derived from its 1,093 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $1.1M 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

1 observed day · window low $19.99

Across 1 observed UTC day from 2026-10-29 to 2026-10-29, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $19.99 to $19.99. The tracked-window low was $19.99 on 2026-10-29.

Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.

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Platforms

windows

Genres

AdventureIndieRPG SimulationEarly Access

Frequently asked questions

How many copies has Novus Inceptio sold?: indielist estimates Novus Inceptio has sold between 59,022 and 137,718 units (median 98,370), derived from its 1,093 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
Who developed Novus Inceptio?: Novus Inceptio was developed by McMagic Productions and published by McMagic Productions.
Who published Novus Inceptio?: Novus Inceptio was published by McMagic Productions, developed by McMagic Productions. See McMagic Productions's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
When was Novus Inceptio released?: Novus Inceptio was released in 2015.
How many reviews does Novus Inceptio have on Steam?: Novus Inceptio has 1,093 Steam reviews.

Players looking for games like Novus Inceptio can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Adventure titles such as Subnautica, Raft, Satisfactory, Human Fall Flat, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, McMagic Productions's other releases and McMagic Productions's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Novus Inceptio 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 Novus Inceptio page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Adventure 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.

Matched from shared Steam tags and primary genre. Review count breaks ties; it is not a personal recommendation score.