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Adventure indie game The War for the West offers a budget entry at $7.99 from developer and publisher Hosted Games. Its 2019 Steam release has 77 user reviews with 82% positive, giving it a modest but mostly positive hidden-gem signal.
Overview
The War for the West is a 2019 Adventure game developed by Hosted Games and published by Hosted Games. It is tracked in indielist's catalog of indie Adventure titles alongside its developer and publisher relationships. The game is available on linux, mac, windows, and launched at $8. The pairing of developer Hosted Games with publisher Hosted Games 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 publishes a transparent, white-box sales estimate with the full Boxleiter factor breakdown 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 War for the West can be compared against similar Adventure titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
0
Positive
82%
Steam appid
1137400
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.00 to 0
units (median: 0)
≈ $0 to $0 modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2019 | +15 |
| price_$8 | -5 |
| positive_82% | 0 |
| genre_Adventure | +10 |
| final NB | 70 |
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.
Sales estimates for The War for the West are not yet available because its Steam review count is still being collected. indielist publishes a fully transparent, white-box Boxleiter-derived method rather than a single black-box number, so every estimate can be inspected factor by factor once review data lands.
Price history
No tracked store price observations are available for this game in the last 90 days.
Where to buy
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- Fanatical
- Humble Store
- GOG.com
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Platforms
linuxmacwindows
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has The War for the West sold?
- indielist estimates The War for the West has sold between 0 and 0 units (median 0), derived from its 0 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed The War for the West?
- The War for the West was developed by Hosted Games and published by Hosted Games.
- Who published The War for the West?
- The War for the West was published by Hosted Games, developed by Hosted Games. See Hosted Games's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was The War for the West released?
- The War for the West was released in 2019.
Ecosystem
Players looking for games like The War for the West 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, Hosted Games's other releases and Hosted Games's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where The War for the West 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 War for the West 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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