How many copies has StarDrive sold?

indielist estimates StarDrive has sold between 56,340 and 131,460 units (median 93,900), derived from its 1,252 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.

Who developed StarDrive?

StarDrive was developed by Zero Sum Games and is self-published.

When was StarDrive released?

StarDrive was released in 2013.

How many reviews does StarDrive have on Steam?

StarDrive has 1,252 Steam reviews, of which 45% are positive.

Is StarDrive worth playing?

Steam players rate StarDrive 45% positive across 1,252 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.

StarDrive

Apr 26, 2013 Indie $29.99

Developer Zero Sum Games self-published

Profile updated Oct 2026

The indie game StarDrive launched in 2013, developed and self-published by zero-sum-games at an initial price of $29.99. It has 1,252 Steam reviews, with a listed mixed rating; no engine or genre tags beyond indie are specified.

StarDrive is a 2013 Indie game developed by Zero Sum Games, who self-published it. On Steam it has gathered 1,252 player reviews, 45% of them positive, which counts as a mixed reception among indie titles in the Indie category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $30. As a self-published Indie project, StarDrive sits among the independent releases indielist tracks where the developer Zero Sum Games retained both creative and commercial control, a path many indie studios weigh against signing with a publisher. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 56,000 to 131,000 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, StarDrive can be compared against similar Indie titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.

Reviews

1,252

Positive

45%

Steam appid

220660

Engine

Unknown

Players (snapshot)

Unavailable

Sales estimate

v1.0

56K to 131K

units (median: 94K)

≈ $965K to $2.3M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)

56K median 131K

+ How is this calculated?

1,252 reviews × NB(75) = 93,900 median units

Factor	Adjustment
base	+50
year_2013	+30
price_$30	+5
positive_45%	-10
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 StarDrive at roughly 56,000 to 131,000 copies, with a median around 94,000, derived from its 1,252 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $1.6M 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

2 observed days · window low $29.99

Across 2 observed UTC days from 2026-10-15 to 2026-10-22, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $29.99 to $29.99. The tracked-window low was $29.99 on 2026-10-15.

Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.

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Platforms

windows

Genres

IndieStrategy

Frequently asked questions

How many copies has StarDrive sold?: indielist estimates StarDrive has sold between 56,340 and 131,460 units (median 93,900), derived from its 1,252 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
Who developed StarDrive?: StarDrive was developed by Zero Sum Games and is self-published.
When was StarDrive released?: StarDrive was released in 2013.
How many reviews does StarDrive have on Steam?: StarDrive has 1,252 Steam reviews, of which 45% are positive.
Is StarDrive worth playing?: Steam players rate StarDrive 45% positive across 1,252 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.

Players looking for games like StarDrive 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, Zero Sum Games's other releases are one click away, letting players and analysts see where StarDrive sits among the studio's body of work without a publisher in the loop. Because indielist maps studios, publishers, games, and funding into one connected graph, the same StarDrive 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.

Matched from shared Steam tags and primary genre. Review count breaks ties; it is not a personal recommendation score.