Wasteland 1 - The Original Classic
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Adventure players looking for a budget indie game can start with Wasteland 1 - The Original Classic, a 2013 release priced at $5.99. It has 475 Steam reviews at 79% positive and is developed and published by inxile-entertainment.
Overview
Wasteland 1 - The Original Classic is a 2013 Adventure game developed by inXile Entertainment and published by inXile Entertainment. On Steam it has gathered 289 player reviews, 79% of them positive, which counts as a mostly positive reception among indie titles in the Adventure category. The game is available on linux, mac, windows, and launched at $6. The pairing of developer inXile Entertainment with publisher inXile Entertainment 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 15,000 to 34,000 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, Wasteland 1 - The Original Classic can be compared against similar Adventure titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
289
Positive
79%
Steam appid
259130
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.015K to 34K
units (median: 25K)
≈ $50K to $118K modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2013 | +30 |
| price_$6 | -5 |
| positive_79% | 0 |
| genre_Adventure | +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 Wasteland 1 - The Original Classic at roughly 15,000 to 34,000 copies, with a median around 25,000, derived from its 289 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $84K 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
14 observed days · window low $1.09Across 14 observed UTC days from 2026-07-15 to 2026-09-01, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $1.09 to $5.99. The tracked-window low was $1.09 on 2026-08-18.
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 Wasteland 1 - The Original Classic sold?
- indielist estimates Wasteland 1 - The Original Classic has sold between 14,739 and 34,391 units (median 24,565), derived from its 289 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Wasteland 1 - The Original Classic?
- Wasteland 1 - The Original Classic was developed by inXile Entertainment and published by inXile Entertainment.
- Who published Wasteland 1 - The Original Classic?
- Wasteland 1 - The Original Classic was published by inXile Entertainment, developed by inXile Entertainment. See inXile Entertainment's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was Wasteland 1 - The Original Classic released?
- Wasteland 1 - The Original Classic was released in 2013.
- How many reviews does Wasteland 1 - The Original Classic have on Steam?
- Wasteland 1 - The Original Classic has 289 Steam reviews, of which 79% are positive.
- Is Wasteland 1 - The Original Classic worth playing?
- Steam players rate Wasteland 1 - The Original Classic 79% positive across 289 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 Wasteland 1 - The Original Classic 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, inXile Entertainment's other releases and inXile Entertainment's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Wasteland 1 - The Original Classic 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 Wasteland 1 - The Original Classic 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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