How many copies has Tide Up sold?

indielist estimates Tide Up has sold between 9,945 and 23,205 units (median 16,575), derived from its 255 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.

Who developed Tide Up?

Tide Up was developed by Gustav and published by Gustav.

Who published Tide Up?

Tide Up was published by Gustav, developed by Gustav. See Gustav's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.

How many reviews does Tide Up have on Steam?

Tide Up has 255 Steam reviews, of which 92% are positive.

Is Tide Up worth playing?

Steam players rate Tide Up 92% positive across 255 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.

Tide Up

Mar 11, 2022 Adventure $7.99

Developer Gustav Publisher Gustav

Profile updated Jul 2026

Adventure indie game Tide Up offers a budget-priced option at $7.99. Developed and published by gustav in 2022, it has 254 Steam reviews with 92% positive, giving it a modest but very positive hidden-gem signal.

Tide Up is a 2022 Adventure game developed by Gustav and published by Gustav. On Steam it has gathered 255 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 windows, and launched at $8. The pairing of developer Gustav with publisher Gustav 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 10,000 to 23,000 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, Tide Up can be compared against similar Adventure titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.

Reviews

255

Positive

92%

Steam appid

1890520

Engine

Unknown

Players (snapshot)

Unavailable

Sales estimate

v1.0

10K to 23K

units (median: 17K)

≈ $45K to $106K modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)

10K median 23K

+ How is this calculated?

255 reviews × NB(65) = 16,575 median units

Factor	Adjustment
base	+50
year_2022	0
price_$8	-5
positive_92%	+10
genre_Adventure	+10
final NB	65

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 Tide Up at roughly 10,000 to 23,000 copies, with a median around 17,000, derived from its 255 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $76K 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

12 observed days · window low $3.99

Across 12 observed UTC days from 2026-07-17 to 2026-09-02, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $3.99 to $7.99. The tracked-window low was $3.99 on 2026-07-17.

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

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Platforms

windows

Genres

AdventureIndie

Frequently asked questions

How many copies has Tide Up sold?: indielist estimates Tide Up has sold between 9,945 and 23,205 units (median 16,575), derived from its 255 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
Who developed Tide Up?: Tide Up was developed by Gustav and published by Gustav.
Who published Tide Up?: Tide Up was published by Gustav, developed by Gustav. See Gustav's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
When was Tide Up released?: Tide Up was released in 2022.
How many reviews does Tide Up have on Steam?: Tide Up has 255 Steam reviews, of which 92% are positive.
Is Tide Up worth playing?: Steam players rate Tide Up 92% positive across 255 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.

Players looking for games like Tide Up 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, Gustav's other releases and Gustav's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Tide Up 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 Tide Up 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.

Matched from shared Steam tags and primary genre. Review count breaks ties; it is not a personal recommendation score.