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Indie game Star Ruler is a budget-priced 2010 release from Blind Mind Studios. It has 260 Steam reviews listed as mixed, launched at $7.99, and appears self-published with Blind Mind Studios as both developer and publisher.
Overview
Star Ruler is a 2010 Indie game developed by Blind Mind Studios and published by Blind Mind Studios. On Steam it has gathered 261 player reviews, 83% of them positive, which counts as a mostly positive reception among indie titles in the Indie category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $8. The pairing of developer Blind Mind Studios with publisher Blind Mind Studios 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 12,000 to 27,000 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, Star Ruler can be compared against similar Indie titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
261
Positive
83%
Steam appid
70900
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.012K to 27K
units (median: 20K)
≈ $54K to $125K modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2010 | +30 |
| price_$8 | -5 |
| positive_83% | 0 |
| final NB | 75 |
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 Star Ruler at roughly 12,000 to 27,000 copies, with a median around 20,000, derived from its 261 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $89K 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
3 observed days · window low $7.99Across 3 observed UTC days from 2026-08-20 to 2026-09-03, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $7.99 to $7.99. The tracked-window low was $7.99 on 2026-08-20.
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
Genres
IndieStrategy
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Star Ruler sold?
- indielist estimates Star Ruler has sold between 11,745 and 27,405 units (median 19,575), derived from its 261 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Star Ruler?
- Star Ruler was developed by Blind Mind Studios and published by Blind Mind Studios.
- Who published Star Ruler?
- Star Ruler was published by Blind Mind Studios, developed by Blind Mind Studios. See Blind Mind Studios's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was Star Ruler released?
- Star Ruler was released in 2010.
- How many reviews does Star Ruler have on Steam?
- Star Ruler has 261 Steam reviews, of which 83% are positive.
- Is Star Ruler worth playing?
- Steam players rate Star Ruler 83% positive across 261 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 Star Ruler 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, Blind Mind Studios's other releases and Blind Mind Studios's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Star Ruler 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 Star Ruler 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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