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Adventure indie game Shards of Order comes from developer fardust and publisher awaken-realms. Released in 2026, it has 208 Steam reviews with 91% positive, making it a modest-scale hidden gem signal. At $9.99, it fits the budget adventure segment.
Overview
Shards of Order is a 2026 Adventure game developed by Fardust and published by Awaken Realms. On Steam it has gathered 551 player reviews, 91% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Adventure category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $10. The pairing of developer Fardust with publisher Awaken Realms 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 18,000 to 42,000 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, Shards of Order can be compared against similar Adventure titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
551
Positive
91%
Steam appid
3432480
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.018K to 42K
units (median: 30K)
≈ $104K to $242K modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2026 | -10 |
| price_$10 | -5 |
| positive_91% | +10 |
| genre_Adventure | +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 Shards of Order at roughly 18,000 to 42,000 copies, with a median around 30,000, derived from its 551 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $173K 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
6 observed days · window low $9.99Across 6 observed UTC days from 2026-08-01 to 2026-09-05, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $9.99 to $9.99. The tracked-window low was $9.99 on 2026-08-01.
Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.
Where to buy
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- GOG.com
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Platforms
windows
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Shards of Order sold?
- indielist estimates Shards of Order has sold between 18,183 and 42,427 units (median 30,305), derived from its 551 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Shards of Order?
- Shards of Order was developed by Fardust and published by Awaken Realms.
- Who published Shards of Order?
- Shards of Order was published by Awaken Realms, developed by Fardust. See Awaken Realms's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was Shards of Order released?
- Shards of Order was released in 2026.
- How many reviews does Shards of Order have on Steam?
- Shards of Order has 551 Steam reviews, of which 91% are positive.
- Is Shards of Order worth playing?
- Steam players rate Shards of Order 91% positive across 551 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 Shards of Order 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, Fardust's other releases and Awaken Realms's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Shards of Order 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 Shards of Order 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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