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Action indie game Planetoid Pioneers launched in 2018, with data-realms handling both development and publishing. Its Steam listing has 362 reviews with a mixed rating, and its initial price was $19.99; the engine is unspecified.
Overview
Planetoid Pioneers is a 2018 Action game developed by Data Realms and published by Data Realms. On Steam it has gathered 400 player reviews, 61% of them positive, which counts as a mixed reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $20. The pairing of developer Data Realms with publisher Data Realms 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 13,000 to 31,000 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, Planetoid Pioneers can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
400
Positive
61%
Steam appid
300260
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.013K to 31K
units (median: 22K)
≈ $151K to $352K modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2018 | +15 |
| price_$20 | 0 |
| positive_61% | -10 |
| final NB | 55 |
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 Planetoid Pioneers at roughly 13,000 to 31,000 copies, with a median around 22,000, derived from its 400 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $251K 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 $19.99Across 1 observed UTC day from 2026-10-18 to 2026-10-18, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $19.99 to $19.99. The tracked-window low was $19.99 on 2026-10-18.
Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.
Where to buy
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- Humble Store
- GOG.com
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Platforms
windows
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Planetoid Pioneers sold?
- indielist estimates Planetoid Pioneers has sold between 13,200 and 30,800 units (median 22,000), derived from its 400 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Planetoid Pioneers?
- Planetoid Pioneers was developed by Data Realms and published by Data Realms.
- Who published Planetoid Pioneers?
- Planetoid Pioneers was published by Data Realms, developed by Data Realms. See Data Realms's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was Planetoid Pioneers released?
- Planetoid Pioneers was released in 2018.
- How many reviews does Planetoid Pioneers have on Steam?
- Planetoid Pioneers has 400 Steam reviews, of which 61% are positive.
- Is Planetoid Pioneers worth playing?
- Steam players rate Planetoid Pioneers 61% positive across 400 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 Planetoid Pioneers can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Action titles such as Terraria, Rust, Phasmophobia, Geometry Dash, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Data Realms's other releases and Data Realms's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Planetoid Pioneers 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 Planetoid Pioneers 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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