How many copies has Stars in Shadow sold?

indielist estimates Stars in Shadow has sold between 37,434 and 87,346 units (median 62,390), derived from its 734 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.

Who developed Stars in Shadow?

Stars in Shadow was developed by Ashdar Games and published by Iceberg Interactive.

Who published Stars in Shadow?

Stars in Shadow was published by Iceberg Interactive, developed by Ashdar Games. See Iceberg Interactive's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.

When was Stars in Shadow released?

Stars in Shadow was released in 2017.

How many reviews does Stars in Shadow have on Steam?

Stars in Shadow has 734 Steam reviews, of which 78% are positive.

Is Stars in Shadow worth playing?

Steam players rate Stars in Shadow 78% positive across 734 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.

Stars in Shadow

Jan 19, 2017 Indie $24.99

Developer Ashdar Games Publisher Iceberg Interactive

Profile updated Jul 2026

Indie game angle: Stars in Shadow launched in 2017 from ashdar-games. It has 835 Steam reviews at 79% positive, a Mostly Positive rating, an initial $24.99 price, and publishing by iceberg-interactive.

Stars in Shadow is a 2017 Indie game developed by Ashdar Games and published by Iceberg Interactive. On Steam it has gathered 734 player reviews, 78% 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 $25. The pairing of developer Ashdar Games with publisher Iceberg Interactive 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 37,000 to 87,000 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, Stars in Shadow can be compared against similar Indie titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.

Reviews

734

Positive

78%

Steam appid

464880

Engine

Unknown

Players (snapshot)

Unavailable

Sales estimate

v1.0

37K to 87K

units (median: 62K)

≈ $534K to $1.2M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)

37K median 87K

+ How is this calculated?

734 reviews × NB(85) = 62,390 median units

Factor	Adjustment
base	+50
year_2017	+30
price_$25	+5
positive_78%	0
final NB	85

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 Stars in Shadow at roughly 37,000 to 87,000 copies, with a median around 62,000, derived from its 734 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $891K 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

10 observed days · window low $4.49

Across 10 observed UTC days from 2026-07-20 to 2026-09-05, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $4.49 to $24.99. The tracked-window low was $4.49 on 2026-07-22.

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 Stars in Shadow sold?: indielist estimates Stars in Shadow has sold between 37,434 and 87,346 units (median 62,390), derived from its 734 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
Who developed Stars in Shadow?: Stars in Shadow was developed by Ashdar Games and published by Iceberg Interactive.
Who published Stars in Shadow?: Stars in Shadow was published by Iceberg Interactive, developed by Ashdar Games. See Iceberg Interactive's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
When was Stars in Shadow released?: Stars in Shadow was released in 2017.
How many reviews does Stars in Shadow have on Steam?: Stars in Shadow has 734 Steam reviews, of which 78% are positive.
Is Stars in Shadow worth playing?: Steam players rate Stars in Shadow 78% positive across 734 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 Stars in Shadow 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, Ashdar Games's other releases and Iceberg Interactive's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Stars in Shadow 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 Stars in Shadow 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.