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The Art of Reflection

Dec 1, 2025 Adventure $17.99
Developer Hydrozoa Publisher Hydrozoa
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Adventure indie game The Art of Reflection launched in 2025 from developer and publisher hydrozoa, indicating a self-published release. Its Steam reception is small but strong, with 150 reviews and 97% positive, at an initial price of $17.99.

Overview

The Art of Reflection is a 2025 Adventure game developed by Hydrozoa and published by Hydrozoa. On Steam it has gathered 151 player reviews, 97% of them positive, which counts as a overwhelmingly positive reception among indie titles in the Adventure category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $18. The pairing of developer Hydrozoa with publisher Hydrozoa 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 5,000 to 13,000 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, The Art of Reflection can be compared against similar Adventure titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.

Reviews

151

Positive

97%

Steam appid

2290770

Engine

Unknown

Players (snapshot)

Unavailable

Sales estimate

v1.0

5K to 13K

units (median: 9K)

≈ $56K to $130K modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)

5K median 13K
+ How is this calculated?
151 reviews × NB(60) = 9,060 median units
Factor Adjustment
base +50
year_2025 -10
price_$18 0
positive_97% +10
genre_Adventure +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 The Art of Reflection at roughly 5,000 to 13,000 copies, with a median around 9,000, derived from its 151 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $93K 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

13 observed days · window low $13.49

Across 13 observed UTC days from 2026-07-17 to 2026-09-07, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $13.49 to $17.99. The tracked-window low was $13.49 on 2026-07-17.

$11 $15 $20 07-1707-1907-2208-0308-2409-07 2026-07-17: $13.49 2026-07-18: $13.49 2026-07-19: $13.49 2026-07-20: $13.49 2026-07-21: $13.49 2026-07-22: $13.49 2026-07-27: $17.99 2026-08-03: $17.99 2026-08-10: $17.99 2026-08-17: $17.99 2026-08-24: $17.99 2026-08-31: $17.99 2026-09-07: $17.99 2026-07-17: $13.49 (tracked-window low) 2026-07-18: $13.49 (tracked-window low) 2026-07-19: $13.49 (tracked-window low) 2026-07-20: $13.49 (tracked-window low) 2026-07-21: $13.49 (tracked-window low) 2026-07-22: $13.49 (tracked-window low) 2026-07-27: $17.99 2026-08-03: $17.99 2026-08-10: $17.99 2026-08-17: $17.99 2026-08-24: $17.99 2026-08-31: $17.99 2026-09-07: $17.99 Tracked-window low: $13.49 on 2026-07-17

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

Where to buy

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Platforms

windows

Genres

AdventureIndie

Frequently asked questions

How many copies has The Art of Reflection sold?
indielist estimates The Art of Reflection has sold between 5,436 and 12,684 units (median 9,060), derived from its 151 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
Who developed The Art of Reflection?
The Art of Reflection was developed by Hydrozoa and published by Hydrozoa.
Who published The Art of Reflection?
The Art of Reflection was published by Hydrozoa, developed by Hydrozoa. See Hydrozoa's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
When was The Art of Reflection released?
The Art of Reflection was released in 2025.
How many reviews does The Art of Reflection have on Steam?
The Art of Reflection has 151 Steam reviews, of which 97% are positive.
Is The Art of Reflection worth playing?
Steam players rate The Art of Reflection 97% positive across 151 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 The Art of Reflection 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, Hydrozoa's other releases and Hydrozoa's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where The Art of Reflection 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 The Art of Reflection 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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