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An indie game from Whatboy Games, Trials of Fire launched in 2021 at a $19.99 initial price. On Steam it has 3,253 reviews with 86% positive sentiment, indicating a very positive reception for a self-published release.
Overview
Trials of Fire is a 2021 Indie game developed by Whatboy Games and published by Whatboy Games. On Steam it has gathered 2,973 player reviews, 86% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Indie category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $20. The pairing of developer Whatboy Games with publisher Whatboy Games is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Indie projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 134,000 to 312,000 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, Trials of Fire can be compared against similar Indie titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
2,973
Positive
86%
Steam appid
1038370
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.0134K to 312K
units (median: 223K)
≈ $1.5M to $3.6M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2021 | +15 |
| price_$20 | 0 |
| positive_86% | +10 |
| final NB | 75 |
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 Trials of Fire at roughly 134,000 to 312,000 copies, with a median around 223,000, derived from its 2,973 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $2.5M 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
9 observed days · window low $19.99Across 9 observed UTC days from 2026-06-09 to 2026-07-22, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $19.99 to $19.99. The tracked-window low was $19.99 on 2026-06-09.
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 Trials of Fire sold?
- indielist estimates Trials of Fire has sold between 133,785 and 312,165 units (median 222,975), derived from its 2,973 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Trials of Fire?
- Trials of Fire was developed by Whatboy Games and published by Whatboy Games.
- Who published Trials of Fire?
- Trials of Fire was published by Whatboy Games, developed by Whatboy Games. See Whatboy Games's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was Trials of Fire released?
- Trials of Fire was released in 2021.
- How many reviews does Trials of Fire have on Steam?
- Trials of Fire has 2,973 Steam reviews, of which 86% are positive.
- Is Trials of Fire worth playing?
- Steam players rate Trials of Fire 86% positive across 2,973 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 Trials of Fire can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Indie titles such as Stardew Valley, Euro Truck Simulator 2, Project Zomboid, Undertale, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Whatboy Games's other releases and Whatboy Games's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Trials of Fire 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 Trials of Fire page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Indie 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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