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Action-focused indie game Sons Of The Forest launched in 2024 from Endnight Games Ltd, published by Newnight. On Steam it has 272,771 reviews with 88% positive, a very positive signal at scale, and an initial price of $29.99.
Overview
Sons Of The Forest is a 2024 Action game developed by Endnight Games Ltd and published by Newnight. On Steam it has gathered 273,520 player reviews, 88% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $30. The pairing of developer Endnight Games Ltd with publisher Newnight 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 10.7 million to 24.9 million 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, Sons Of The Forest can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
273,520
Positive
88%
Steam appid
1326470
Engine
Unknown
Sales estimate
vv1.010.7M to 24.9M
units (median: 17.8M)
≈ $182.7M to $426.4M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2024 | 0 |
| price_$30 | +5 |
| positive_88% | +10 |
| final NB | 65 |
Confidence range: median × [0.6, 1.4]. Boundary protection: NB ∈ [15, 150].
Methodology & limitations
Sales estimates use a multi-factor Boxleiter method against public Steam review counts.
They are not authoritative sales data. Actual sales can deviate by
±50% in either direction. Free-to-play games, deeply discounted titles, and games
with heavy bundle distribution have larger error margins. Algorithm version
v1.0.
indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for Sons Of The Forest at roughly 10.7 million to 24.9 million copies, with a median around 17.8 million, derived from its 273,520 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $304.6M 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
90d · low $16.91Over the last 90 days the price ranged from $16.91 to $29.99, averaging $28.35 across 3 discount windows, with a historical low of $16.91 on 2026-04-16.
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Platforms
windows
Genres
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Sons Of The Forest sold?
- indielist estimates Sons Of The Forest has sold between 10,667,280 and 24,890,320 units (median 17,778,800), derived from its 273,520 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter vv1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Sons Of The Forest?
- Sons Of The Forest was developed by Endnight Games Ltd and published by Newnight.
- When was Sons Of The Forest released?
- Sons Of The Forest was released in 2024.
- How many reviews does Sons Of The Forest have on Steam?
- Sons Of The Forest has 273,520 Steam reviews, of which 88% are positive.
Ecosystem
indielist positions Sons Of The Forest within the Action segment so players can surface comparable titles by shared tags and genre rather than by storefront promotion. On the developer side, Endnight Games Ltd's other releases and Newnight's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Sons Of The Forest 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 Sons Of The Forest 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.