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Starbound is an action-adventure RPG with 120,587 Steam reviews. This indie title was released in 2016.
Overview
Starbound is a 2016 Action game developed by Chucklefish and published by Chucklefish. On Steam it has gathered 120,582 player reviews, 90% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on linux, mac, windows, and launched at $15. The pairing of developer Chucklefish with publisher Chucklefish 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 model estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 6.5 million to 15.2 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, Starbound can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
120,582
Positive
90%
Steam appid
211820
Engine
n/a
Sales estimate
vv1.06.5M to 15.2M
units (median: 10.9M)
≈ $55.8M to $130.1M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for Starbound at roughly 6.5 million to 15.2 million copies, with a median around 10.9 million, derived from its 120,582 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter model (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $92.9M 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 $9.46Over the last 90 days the price ranged from $9.46 to $14.99, averaging $14.21 across 3 discount windows, with a historical low of $9.46 on 2026-03-09.
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Where to buy
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Platforms
linuxmacwindows
Tags
Open World Survival CraftSandboxSurvivalSpaceAdventureCraftingPixel GraphicsOnline Co-OpMultiplayerOpen WorldExplorationRelaxingIndie2DActionBuildingCo-opRPGAtmosphericSci-fi
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Starbound sold?
- indielist estimates Starbound has sold between 6,511,428 and 15,193,332 units (median 10,852,380), derived from its 120,582 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter vv1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Starbound?
- Starbound was developed by Chucklefish and published by Chucklefish.
- When was Starbound released?
- Starbound was released in 2016.
- How many reviews does Starbound have on Steam?
- Starbound has 120,582 Steam reviews, of which 90% are positive.
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Starbound sold?
- indielist estimates Starbound has sold between 6,511,428 and 15,193,332 units (median 10,852,380), derived from its 120,582 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter vv1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Starbound?
- Starbound was developed by Chucklefish and published by Chucklefish.
- When was Starbound released?
- Starbound was released in 2016.
- How many reviews does Starbound have on Steam?
- Starbound has 120,582 Steam reviews, of which 90% are positive.
Ecosystem
Players looking for games like Starbound can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Action titles such as No Man's Sky, Terraria, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Chucklefish's other releases and Chucklefish's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Starbound 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 Starbound 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.
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