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Adventure indie game Scarlet Idol launched in 2026 with publisher pilot-games and developer entity-2812 listed. Its Steam reception sits at 2,255 reviews with 60% positive, a mixed signal, and the $7.99 price places it in the budget tier.
Overview
Scarlet Idol is a 2026 Adventure game developed by 山雨工作室 and published by Pilot Games. On Steam it has gathered 2,587 player reviews, 66% of them positive, which counts as a mixed-to-positive reception among indie titles in the Adventure category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $8. The pairing of developer 山雨工作室 with publisher Pilot Games is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Adventure projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 54,000 to 127,000 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, Scarlet Idol can be compared against similar Adventure titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
2,587
Positive
66%
Steam appid
3513600
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.054K to 127K
units (median: 91K)
≈ $248K to $579K modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2026 | -10 |
| price_$8 | -5 |
| positive_66% | -10 |
| genre_Adventure | +10 |
| final NB | 35 |
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 Scarlet Idol at roughly 54,000 to 127,000 copies, with a median around 91,000, derived from its 2,587 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $413K 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 $7.19Across 9 observed UTC days from 2026-06-09 to 2026-07-22, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $7.19 to $7.99. The tracked-window low was $7.19 on 2026-07-15.
Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.
Where to buy
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Platforms
windows
Genres
AdventureIndie
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Scarlet Idol sold?
- indielist estimates Scarlet Idol has sold between 54,327 and 126,763 units (median 90,545), derived from its 2,587 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Scarlet Idol?
- Scarlet Idol was developed by 山雨工作室 and published by Pilot Games.
- Who published Scarlet Idol?
- Scarlet Idol was published by Pilot Games, developed by 山雨工作室. See Pilot Games's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was Scarlet Idol released?
- Scarlet Idol was released in 2026.
- How many reviews does Scarlet Idol have on Steam?
- Scarlet Idol has 2,587 Steam reviews, of which 66% are positive.
- Is Scarlet Idol worth playing?
- Steam players rate Scarlet Idol 66% positive across 2,587 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 Scarlet Idol can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Adventure titles such as Subnautica, Raft, Satisfactory, Human Fall Flat, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, 山雨工作室's other releases and Pilot Games's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Scarlet Idol 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 Scarlet Idol page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Adventure 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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