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Action indie game Tokyo 42 comes from developer smac-games and publisher mode-7. Released in 2017, it has 389 Steam reviews listed as mixed with 0% positive, and launched at an initial price of $19.99.
Overview
Tokyo 42 is a 2017 Action game developed by SMAC Games and published by Mode 7. On Steam it has gathered 392 player reviews, 69% of them positive, which counts as a mixed-to-positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $20. The pairing of developer SMAC Games with publisher Mode 7 is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Action projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 16,000 to 38,000 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, Tokyo 42 can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
392
Positive
69%
Steam appid
490450
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.016K to 38K
units (median: 27K)
≈ $188K to $439K modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2017 | +30 |
| price_$20 | 0 |
| positive_69% | -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.
indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for Tokyo 42 at roughly 16,000 to 38,000 copies, with a median around 27,000, derived from its 392 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $313K 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
5 observed days · window low $1.99Across 5 observed UTC days from 2026-08-06 to 2026-09-03, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $1.99 to $19.99. The tracked-window low was $1.99 on 2026-08-06.
Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.
Where to buy
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Platforms
windows
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Tokyo 42 sold?
- indielist estimates Tokyo 42 has sold between 16,464 and 38,416 units (median 27,440), derived from its 392 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Tokyo 42?
- Tokyo 42 was developed by SMAC Games and published by Mode 7.
- Who published Tokyo 42?
- Tokyo 42 was published by Mode 7, developed by SMAC Games. See Mode 7's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was Tokyo 42 released?
- Tokyo 42 was released in 2017.
- How many reviews does Tokyo 42 have on Steam?
- Tokyo 42 has 392 Steam reviews, of which 69% are positive.
- Is Tokyo 42 worth playing?
- Steam players rate Tokyo 42 69% positive across 392 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 Tokyo 42 can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Action titles such as Terraria, Rust, Phasmophobia, The Forest, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, SMAC Games's other releases and Mode 7's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Tokyo 42 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 Tokyo 42 page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Action 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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