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Built around an indie game pitch with no listed tags or public engine, Ways of Alchemy launched in 2025 from rocketbrush-games. The same studio is listed as both developer and publisher, with a $17.99 initial price and 665 Steam reviews marked mixed.
Overview
Ways of Alchemy is a 2025 Indie game developed by RocketBrush Games and published by RocketBrush Games. On Steam it has gathered 696 player reviews, 75% of them positive, which counts as a mixed-to-positive reception among indie titles in the Indie category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $18. The pairing of developer RocketBrush Games with publisher RocketBrush 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 17,000 to 39,000 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, Ways of Alchemy can be compared against similar Indie titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
696
Positive
75%
Steam appid
2915380
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.017K to 39K
units (median: 28K)
≈ $172K to $401K modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2025 | -10 |
| price_$18 | 0 |
| positive_75% | 0 |
| final NB | 40 |
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 Ways of Alchemy at roughly 17,000 to 39,000 copies, with a median around 28,000, derived from its 696 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $286K 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
11 observed days · window low $9.89Across 11 observed UTC days from 2026-08-06 to 2026-10-22, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $9.89 to $17.99. The tracked-window low was $9.89 on 2026-10-15.
Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.
Where to buy
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- Humble Store
- GOG.com
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Platforms
windows
Genres
IndieRPGSimulation
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Ways of Alchemy sold?
- indielist estimates Ways of Alchemy has sold between 16,704 and 38,976 units (median 27,840), derived from its 696 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Ways of Alchemy?
- Ways of Alchemy was developed by RocketBrush Games and published by RocketBrush Games.
- Who published Ways of Alchemy?
- Ways of Alchemy was published by RocketBrush Games, developed by RocketBrush Games. See RocketBrush Games's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was Ways of Alchemy released?
- Ways of Alchemy was released in 2025.
- How many reviews does Ways of Alchemy have on Steam?
- Ways of Alchemy has 696 Steam reviews, of which 75% are positive.
- Is Ways of Alchemy worth playing?
- Steam players rate Ways of Alchemy 75% positive across 696 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 Ways of Alchemy 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, RocketBrush Games's other releases and RocketBrush Games's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Ways of Alchemy 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 Ways of Alchemy 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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