How many copies has Plains of Pain sold?

indielist estimates Plains of Pain has sold between 25,050 and 58,450 units (median 41,750), derived from its 835 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.

Who published Plains of Pain?

Plains of Pain was published by Cobra Byte Digital, developed by Cobra Byte Digital. See Cobra Byte Digital's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.

When was Plains of Pain released?

Plains of Pain was released in 2023.

How many reviews does Plains of Pain have on Steam?

Plains of Pain has 835 Steam reviews, of which 83% are positive.

Is Plains of Pain worth playing?

Steam players rate Plains of Pain 83% positive across 835 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.

Plains of Pain

Feb 17, 2023 Action $19.99

Developer Cobra Byte Digital Publisher Cobra Byte Digital

Profile updated Jul 2026

Open-world survival action indie game with Early Access, massively multiplayer, and multiplayer tags. Released in 2023 by developer and publisher Cobra Byte Digital, Plains of Pain has 801 Steam reviews with 83% positive, listed as mostly positive at $19.99.

Plains of Pain is a 2023 Action game developed by Cobra Byte Digital and published by Cobra Byte Digital. On Steam it has gathered 835 player reviews, 83% 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 $20. The pairing of developer Cobra Byte Digital with publisher Cobra Byte Digital 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 25,000 to 58,000 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, Plains of Pain can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.

Reviews

835

Positive

83%

Steam appid

2218970

Engine

Unknown

Players (snapshot)

Unavailable

Sales estimate

v1.0

25K to 58K

units (median: 42K)

≈ $286K to $667K modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)

25K median 58K

+ How is this calculated?

835 reviews × NB(50) = 41,750 median units

Factor	Adjustment
base	+50
year_2023	0
price_$20	0
positive_83%	0
final NB	50

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 Plains of Pain at roughly 25,000 to 58,000 copies, with a median around 42,000, derived from its 835 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $477K 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

14 observed days · window low $9.99

Across 14 observed UTC days from 2026-06-03 to 2026-07-22, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $9.99 to $19.99. The tracked-window low was $9.99 on 2026-06-03.

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

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Platforms

windows

Frequently asked questions

How many copies has Plains of Pain sold?: indielist estimates Plains of Pain has sold between 25,050 and 58,450 units (median 41,750), derived from its 835 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
Who developed Plains of Pain?: Plains of Pain was developed by Cobra Byte Digital and published by Cobra Byte Digital.
Who published Plains of Pain?: Plains of Pain was published by Cobra Byte Digital, developed by Cobra Byte Digital. See Cobra Byte Digital's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
When was Plains of Pain released?: Plains of Pain was released in 2023.
How many reviews does Plains of Pain have on Steam?: Plains of Pain has 835 Steam reviews, of which 83% are positive.
Is Plains of Pain worth playing?: Steam players rate Plains of Pain 83% positive across 835 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.

Players looking for games like Plains of Pain can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Action titles such as ARK: Survival Ascended, SurrounDead, Rust, Valheim, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Cobra Byte Digital's other releases and Cobra Byte Digital's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Plains of Pain 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 Plains of Pain 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.

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