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Action-focused gameplay defines Transistor, a 2014 release with 27,869 Steam reviews marked mixed at 0% positive. It was self-published by an unknown developer and launched at an initial price of $19.99.
Overview
Transistor is a 2014 Action game developed by Supergiant Games and published by Supergiant Games. On Steam it has gathered 27,985 player reviews, 94% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on linux, mac, windows, and launched at $20. The pairing of developer Supergiant Games with publisher Supergiant Games 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 1.5 million to 3.5 million 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, Transistor can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
27,985
Positive
94%
Steam appid
237930
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.01.5M to 3.5M
units (median: 2.5M)
≈ $17.3M to $40.3M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2014 | +30 |
| price_$20 | 0 |
| positive_94% | +10 |
| final NB | 90 |
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 Transistor at roughly 1.5 million to 3.5 million copies, with a median around 2.5 million, derived from its 27,985 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $28.8M 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
49 observed days · window low $3.99Across 49 observed UTC days from 2026-06-10 to 2026-09-01, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $3.99 to $19.99. The tracked-window low was $3.99 on 2026-06-26.
Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.
Where to buy
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Platforms
linuxmacwindows
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Transistor sold?
- indielist estimates Transistor has sold between 1,511,190 and 3,526,110 units (median 2,518,650), derived from its 27,985 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Transistor?
- Transistor was developed by Supergiant Games and published by Supergiant Games.
- Who published Transistor?
- Transistor was published by Supergiant Games, developed by Supergiant Games. See Supergiant Games's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was Transistor released?
- Transistor was released in 2014.
- How many reviews does Transistor have on Steam?
- Transistor has 27,985 Steam reviews, of which 94% are positive.
- Is Transistor worth playing?
- Steam players rate Transistor 94% positive across 27,985 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 Transistor 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, Supergiant Games's other releases and Supergiant Games's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Transistor 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 Transistor 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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