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Action indie game Umihara Kawase offers a budget-priced option at $9.99 from developer Studio Saizensen and publisher Komodo. Released in 2015, it has 214 Steam reviews with 93% positive sentiment, making it a smaller-catalog hidden gem with very positive player feedback.
Overview
Umihara Kawase is a 2015 Action game developed by Studio Saizensen and published by KOMODO. On Steam it has gathered 217 player reviews, 93% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $10. The pairing of developer Studio Saizensen with publisher KOMODO 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 11,000 to 26,000 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, Umihara Kawase can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
217
Positive
93%
Steam appid
384690
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.011K to 26K
units (median: 18K)
≈ $63K to $147K modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2015 | +30 |
| price_$10 | -5 |
| positive_93% | +10 |
| final NB | 85 |
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 Umihara Kawase at roughly 11,000 to 26,000 copies, with a median around 18,000, derived from its 217 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $105K 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
No tracked store price observations are available for this game in the last 90 days.
Where to buy
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Platforms
windows
Genres
ActionIndie
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Umihara Kawase sold?
- indielist estimates Umihara Kawase has sold between 11,067 and 25,823 units (median 18,445), derived from its 217 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Umihara Kawase?
- Umihara Kawase was developed by Studio Saizensen and published by KOMODO.
- Who published Umihara Kawase?
- Umihara Kawase was published by KOMODO, developed by Studio Saizensen. See KOMODO's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was Umihara Kawase released?
- Umihara Kawase was released in 2015.
- How many reviews does Umihara Kawase have on Steam?
- Umihara Kawase has 217 Steam reviews, of which 93% are positive.
- Is Umihara Kawase worth playing?
- Steam players rate Umihara Kawase 93% positive across 217 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 Umihara Kawase 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, Studio Saizensen's other releases and KOMODO's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Umihara Kawase 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 Umihara Kawase 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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