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Adventure indie game Uncanny Tales: Cold Road launched in 2025 from developer and publisher vyastudio. Its Steam page lists 139 reviews at 0% positive with a mixed label, and the $2.99 initial price positions it as a budget release.
Overview
Uncanny Tales: Cold Road is a 2025 Adventure game developed by VYASTUDIO and published by VYASTUDIO. On Steam it has gathered 156 player reviews, 75% of them positive, which counts as a mostly positive reception among indie titles in the Adventure category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $3. The pairing of developer VYASTUDIO with publisher VYASTUDIO 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 3,000 to 7,000 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, Uncanny Tales: Cold Road can be compared against similar Adventure titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
156
Positive
75%
Steam appid
3534240
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.03K to 7K
units (median: 5K)
≈ $5K to $11K modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2025 | -10 |
| price_$3 | -20 |
| positive_75% | 0 |
| genre_Adventure | +10 |
| final NB | 30 |
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 Uncanny Tales: Cold Road at roughly 3,000 to 7,000 copies, with a median around 5,000, derived from its 156 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $8K 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 $1.79Across 5 observed UTC days from 2026-08-08 to 2026-09-05, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $1.79 to $2.99. The tracked-window low was $1.79 on 2026-08-08.
Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.
Where to buy
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- Green Man Gaming
- Fanatical
- Humble Store
- GOG.com
Latest tracked store observations (2026-09-05 05:45 UTC), cheapest first. Prices may have changed since observation. Some are affiliate links — we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. Learn more.
Platforms
windows
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Uncanny Tales: Cold Road sold?
- indielist estimates Uncanny Tales: Cold Road has sold between 2,808 and 6,552 units (median 4,680), derived from its 156 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Uncanny Tales: Cold Road?
- Uncanny Tales: Cold Road was developed by VYASTUDIO and published by VYASTUDIO.
- Who published Uncanny Tales: Cold Road?
- Uncanny Tales: Cold Road was published by VYASTUDIO, developed by VYASTUDIO. See VYASTUDIO's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was Uncanny Tales: Cold Road released?
- Uncanny Tales: Cold Road was released in 2025.
- How many reviews does Uncanny Tales: Cold Road have on Steam?
- Uncanny Tales: Cold Road has 156 Steam reviews, of which 75% are positive.
- Is Uncanny Tales: Cold Road worth playing?
- Steam players rate Uncanny Tales: Cold Road 75% positive across 156 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 Uncanny Tales: Cold Road 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, VYASTUDIO's other releases and VYASTUDIO's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Uncanny Tales: Cold Road 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 Uncanny Tales: Cold Road 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.
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