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Action indie game Swordship launched in 2022 from developer digital-kingdom and publisher thunderful-publishing. Its Steam listing shows 203 reviews with a mixed rating, and the initial price was $19.99.
Overview
Swordship is a 2022 Action game developed by Digital Kingdom and published by Thunderful Publishing. On Steam it has gathered 209 player reviews, 86% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $20. The pairing of developer Digital Kingdom with publisher Thunderful Publishing 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 method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 8,000 to 18,000 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, Swordship can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
209
Positive
86%
Steam appid
1804270
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.08K to 18K
units (median: 13K)
≈ $86K to $200K modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2022 | 0 |
| price_$20 | 0 |
| positive_86% | +10 |
| final NB | 60 |
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 Swordship at roughly 8,000 to 18,000 copies, with a median around 13,000, derived from its 209 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $143K 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
15 observed days · window low $2.99Across 15 observed UTC days from 2026-07-15 to 2026-09-05, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $2.99 to $19.99. The tracked-window low was $2.99 on 2026-07-15.
Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.
Where to buy
Affiliate disclosure- GOG.com -85%$2.99 Buy
- Steam reference$19.99 Buy
- Humble Store$19.99 Buy
- Fanatical -10%$20.90 Buy
- Green Man Gaming
Latest tracked store observations (2026-09-05 05:20 UTC), cheapest first. Prices may have changed since observation. Some are affiliate links — we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. Learn more.
Platforms
windows
Genres
ActionIndie
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Swordship sold?
- indielist estimates Swordship has sold between 7,524 and 17,556 units (median 12,540), derived from its 209 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Swordship?
- Swordship was developed by Digital Kingdom and published by Thunderful Publishing.
- Who published Swordship?
- Swordship was published by Thunderful Publishing, developed by Digital Kingdom. See Thunderful Publishing's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was Swordship released?
- Swordship was released in 2022.
- How many reviews does Swordship have on Steam?
- Swordship has 209 Steam reviews, of which 86% are positive.
- Is Swordship worth playing?
- Steam players rate Swordship 86% positive across 209 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 Swordship can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Action titles such as Terraria, Rust, Phasmophobia, The Forest, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Digital Kingdom's other releases and Thunderful Publishing's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Swordship 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 Swordship 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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