The Journey Down: Chapter Three
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Adventure indie game The Journey Down: Chapter Three closes Skygoblin’s series with a point-and-click focus. Released in 2017 and self-published by Skygoblin, it has 482 Steam reviews at 91% positive, making it a well-rated hidden gem at $14.99.
Overview
The Journey Down: Chapter Three is a 2017 Adventure game developed by SkyGoblin and published by SkyGoblin. On Steam it has gathered 317 player reviews, 92% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Adventure category. The game is available on linux, mac, windows, and launched at $15. The pairing of developer SkyGoblin with publisher SkyGoblin 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 19,000 to 44,000 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 Journey Down: Chapter Three can be compared against similar Adventure titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
317
Positive
92%
Steam appid
579760
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.019K to 44K
units (median: 32K)
≈ $163K to $380K modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2017 | +30 |
| price_$15 | 0 |
| positive_92% | +10 |
| genre_Adventure | +10 |
| final NB | 100 |
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 Journey Down: Chapter Three at roughly 19,000 to 44,000 copies, with a median around 32,000, derived from its 317 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $271K 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 $7.49Across 13 observed UTC days from 2026-07-17 to 2026-09-04, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $7.49 to $14.99. The tracked-window low was $7.49 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
linuxmacwindows
Genres
AdventureIndie
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has The Journey Down: Chapter Three sold?
- indielist estimates The Journey Down: Chapter Three has sold between 19,020 and 44,380 units (median 31,700), derived from its 317 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed The Journey Down: Chapter Three?
- The Journey Down: Chapter Three was developed by SkyGoblin and published by SkyGoblin.
- Who published The Journey Down: Chapter Three?
- The Journey Down: Chapter Three was published by SkyGoblin, developed by SkyGoblin. See SkyGoblin's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was The Journey Down: Chapter Three released?
- The Journey Down: Chapter Three was released in 2017.
- How many reviews does The Journey Down: Chapter Three have on Steam?
- The Journey Down: Chapter Three has 317 Steam reviews, of which 92% are positive.
- Is The Journey Down: Chapter Three worth playing?
- Steam players rate The Journey Down: Chapter Three 92% positive across 317 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 Journey Down: Chapter Three 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, SkyGoblin's other releases and SkyGoblin's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where The Journey Down: Chapter Three 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 Journey Down: Chapter Three 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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