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Sweetest Monster is an adventure indie game released in 2017, developed and self-published by ebi-hime. Its $5.99 initial price places it in the budget category, while 560 Steam reviews provide a concrete measure of player feedback volume.
Overview
Sweetest Monster is a 2017 Adventure game developed by ebi-hime and published by ebi-hime. On Steam it has gathered 560 player reviews to date. The game is available on linux, mac, windows, and launched at $6. The pairing of developer ebi-hime with publisher ebi-hime is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Adventure projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 29,000 to 67,000 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, Sweetest Monster can be compared against similar Adventure titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
560
Positive
Unknown
Steam appid
585890
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.029K to 67K
units (median: 48K)
≈ $98K to $228K modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2017 | +30 |
| price_$6 | -5 |
| positive_80% | 0 |
| genre_Adventure | +10 |
| 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 Sweetest Monster at roughly 29,000 to 67,000 copies, with a median around 48,000, derived from its 560 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $163K 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
No tracked store price observations are available for this game in the last 90 days.
Where to buy
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- Green Man Gaming
- Fanatical
- Humble Store
- GOG.com
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Platforms
linuxmacwindows
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Sweetest Monster sold?
- indielist estimates Sweetest Monster has sold between 28,560 and 66,640 units (median 47,600), derived from its 560 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Sweetest Monster?
- Sweetest Monster was developed by ebi-hime and published by ebi-hime.
- Who published Sweetest Monster?
- Sweetest Monster was published by ebi-hime, developed by ebi-hime. See ebi-hime's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was Sweetest Monster released?
- Sweetest Monster was released in 2017.
- How many reviews does Sweetest Monster have on Steam?
- Sweetest Monster has 560 Steam reviews.
Ecosystem
Players looking for games like Sweetest Monster can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Adventure titles such as Subnautica, Raft, Satisfactory, Human Fall Flat, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, ebi-hime's other releases and ebi-hime's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Sweetest Monster 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 Sweetest Monster page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Adventure 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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