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The Gold River Project

Jan 23, 2026 Adventure $24.99
Developer Fairview Games Inc. Publisher Fairview Games Inc.
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The Gold River Project is an adventure game with simulation elements, slated for release in 2026. Currently in Early Access, it has garnered 514 Steam reviews. Publisher and developer attribution is not yet imported.

Overview

The Gold River Project is a 2026 Adventure game developed by Fairview Games Inc. and published by Fairview Games Inc.. On Steam it has gathered 634 player reviews, 64% of them positive, which counts as a mixed reception among indie titles in the Adventure category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $25. The pairing of developer Fairview Games Inc. with publisher Fairview Games Inc. 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 17,000 to 40,000 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 Gold River Project can be compared against similar Adventure titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.

Reviews

634

Positive

64%

Steam appid

1253220

Engine

Unknown

Players (snapshot)

10

Historical snapshot ·

Sales estimate

v1.0

17K to 40K

units (median: 29K)

≈ $244K to $570K modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)

17K median 40K
+ How is this calculated?
634 reviews × NB(45) = 28,530 median units
Factor Adjustment
base +50
year_2026 -10
price_$25 +5
positive_64% -10
genre_Adventure +10
final NB 45

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 Gold River Project at roughly 17,000 to 40,000 copies, with a median around 29,000, derived from its 634 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $407K 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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Platforms

windows

Genres

AdventureIndieSimulationEarly Access

Frequently asked questions

How many copies has The Gold River Project sold?
indielist estimates The Gold River Project has sold between 17,118 and 39,942 units (median 28,530), derived from its 634 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
Who developed The Gold River Project?
The Gold River Project was developed by Fairview Games Inc. and published by Fairview Games Inc..
Who published The Gold River Project?
The Gold River Project was published by Fairview Games Inc., developed by Fairview Games Inc.. See Fairview Games Inc.'s full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
When was The Gold River Project released?
The Gold River Project was released in 2026.
How many reviews does The Gold River Project have on Steam?
The Gold River Project has 634 Steam reviews, of which 64% are positive.
Is The Gold River Project worth playing?
Steam players rate The Gold River Project 64% positive across 634 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 Gold River Project 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, Fairview Games Inc.'s other releases and Fairview Games Inc.'s wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where The Gold River Project 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 Gold River Project 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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