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An indie game from Majic Jungle, Sapiens fits players searching for a 2022 indie release with a self-published profile. It has 2,128 Steam reviews at 83% positive (mostly positive) and launched at $24.99.
Overview
Sapiens is a 2022 Indie game developed by Majic Jungle and published by Majic Jungle. On Steam it has gathered 2,013 player reviews, 82% of them positive, which counts as a mostly positive reception among indie titles in the Indie category. The game is available on mac, windows, and launched at $25. The pairing of developer Majic Jungle with publisher Majic Jungle 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 method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 66,000 to 155,000 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, Sapiens can be compared against similar Indie titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
2,013
Positive
82%
Steam appid
1060230
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.066K to 155K
units (median: 111K)
≈ $948K to $2.2M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2022 | 0 |
| price_$25 | +5 |
| positive_82% | 0 |
| 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 Sapiens at roughly 66,000 to 155,000 copies, with a median around 111,000, derived from its 2,013 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $1.6M 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
9 observed days · window low $24.99Across 9 observed UTC days from 2026-06-09 to 2026-07-22, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $24.99 to $24.99. The tracked-window low was $24.99 on 2026-06-09.
Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.
Where to buy
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- Green Man Gaming
- Fanatical
- Humble Store
- GOG.com
Latest tracked store observations (2026-07-22 05:38 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
macwindows
Genres
IndieSimulationStrategyEarly Access
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Sapiens sold?
- indielist estimates Sapiens has sold between 66,429 and 155,001 units (median 110,715), derived from its 2,013 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Sapiens?
- Sapiens was developed by Majic Jungle and published by Majic Jungle.
- Who published Sapiens?
- Sapiens was published by Majic Jungle, developed by Majic Jungle. See Majic Jungle's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was Sapiens released?
- Sapiens was released in 2022.
- How many reviews does Sapiens have on Steam?
- Sapiens has 2,013 Steam reviews, of which 82% are positive.
- Is Sapiens worth playing?
- Steam players rate Sapiens 82% positive across 2,013 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 Sapiens can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Indie titles such as Stardew Valley, Euro Truck Simulator 2, Project Zomboid, Undertale, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Majic Jungle's other releases and Majic Jungle's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Sapiens 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 Sapiens 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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