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Action indie game Phantom Squad launched in 2025 from developer ctrl-freak and publisher Super Rare Originals. On Steam it has 531 reviews with 81% positive, a mostly positive signal for an under-the-radar release, and an initial price of $13.99.
Overview
Phantom Squad is a 2025 Action game developed by Ctrl Freak and published by Super Rare Originals. On Steam it has gathered 415 player reviews, 81% of them positive, which counts as a mostly positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $14. The pairing of developer Ctrl Freak with publisher Super Rare Originals 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 10,000 to 23,000 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, Phantom Squad can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
415
Positive
81%
Steam appid
2841770
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.010K to 23K
units (median: 17K)
≈ $80K to $186K modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2025 | -10 |
| price_$14 | 0 |
| positive_81% | 0 |
| 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 Phantom Squad at roughly 10,000 to 23,000 copies, with a median around 17,000, derived from its 415 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $133K 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
12 observed days · window low $5.60Across 12 observed UTC days from 2026-07-17 to 2026-09-03, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $5.60 to $8.39. The tracked-window low was $5.60 on 2026-08-13.
Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.
Where to buy
Affiliate disclosure- Fanatical -57%$6.84 Buy
- Steam reference -40%$8.39 Buy
- Humble Store$13.99 Buy
- Green Man Gaming
- GOG.com
Latest tracked store observations (2026-09-03 05:51 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
windows
Genres
ActionIndie
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Phantom Squad sold?
- indielist estimates Phantom Squad has sold between 9,960 and 23,240 units (median 16,600), derived from its 415 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Phantom Squad?
- Phantom Squad was developed by Ctrl Freak and published by Super Rare Originals.
- Who published Phantom Squad?
- Phantom Squad was published by Super Rare Originals, developed by Ctrl Freak. See Super Rare Originals's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was Phantom Squad released?
- Phantom Squad was released in 2025.
- How many reviews does Phantom Squad have on Steam?
- Phantom Squad has 415 Steam reviews, of which 81% are positive.
- Is Phantom Squad worth playing?
- Steam players rate Phantom Squad 81% positive across 415 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 Phantom Squad can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Action titles such as Terraria, Rust, Phasmophobia, The Forest, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Ctrl Freak's other releases and Super Rare Originals's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Phantom Squad 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 Phantom Squad 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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