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Opus Magnum is a 2017 simulation game where players design alchemical machinery. It has garnered 5,625 Steam reviews since its release. The developer and publisher attribution is not yet imported.
Overview
Opus Magnum is a 2017 Indie game developed by Zachtronics and published by Zachtronics. On Steam it has gathered 6,931 player reviews, 97% of them positive, which counts as a overwhelmingly positive reception among indie titles in the Indie category. The game is available on linux, mac, windows, and launched at $20. The pairing of developer Zachtronics with publisher Zachtronics 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 model estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 374,000 to 873,000 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, Opus Magnum can be compared against similar Indie titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
6,931
Positive
97%
Steam appid
558990
Engine
n/a
Sales estimate
vv1.0374K to 873K
units (median: 624K)
≈ $4.3M to $10.0M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for Opus Magnum at roughly 374,000 to 873,000 copies, with a median around 624,000, derived from its 6,931 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter model (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $7.1M 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
90d · low $10.62Over the last 90 days the price ranged from $10.62 to $19.99, averaging $19.04 across 2 discount windows, with a historical low of $10.62 on 2026-04-01.
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Where to buy
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Platforms
linuxmacwindows
Tags
PuzzleProgrammingAutomationIndieSimulationLogicSingleplayerGreat SoundtrackSteampunkBuildingDifficultSandbox2DHex GridCasual
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Opus Magnum sold?
- indielist estimates Opus Magnum has sold between 374,274 and 873,306 units (median 623,790), derived from its 6,931 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter vv1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Opus Magnum?
- Opus Magnum was developed by Zachtronics and published by Zachtronics.
- When was Opus Magnum released?
- Opus Magnum was released in 2017.
- How many reviews does Opus Magnum have on Steam?
- Opus Magnum has 6,931 Steam reviews, of which 97% are positive.
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Opus Magnum sold?
- indielist estimates Opus Magnum has sold between 374,274 and 873,306 units (median 623,790), derived from its 6,931 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter vv1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Opus Magnum?
- Opus Magnum was developed by Zachtronics and published by Zachtronics.
- When was Opus Magnum released?
- Opus Magnum was released in 2017.
- How many reviews does Opus Magnum have on Steam?
- Opus Magnum has 6,931 Steam reviews, of which 97% are positive.
Ecosystem
indielist positions Opus Magnum within the Indie segment so players can surface comparable titles by shared tags and genre rather than by storefront promotion. On the developer side, Zachtronics's other releases and Zachtronics's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Opus Magnum 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 Opus Magnum 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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