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Winter Novel is a casual indie game released in 2016, with an initial price of $4.99 placing it in the budget category. Developed and self-published by dexp, it has 457 Steam reviews; its engine is unknown, and no tags are listed.
Overview
Winter Novel is a 2016 Casual game developed by DeXP and published by DeXP. On Steam it has gathered 457 player reviews to date. The game is available on linux, windows, and launched at $5. The pairing of developer DeXP with publisher DeXP is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Casual projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 12,000 to 29,000 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, Winter Novel can be compared against similar Casual titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
457
Positive
Unknown
Steam appid
485350
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.012K to 29K
units (median: 21K)
≈ $35K to $82K modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2016 | +30 |
| price_$5 | -20 |
| positive_80% | 0 |
| genre_Casual | -15 |
| final NB | 45 |
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 Winter Novel at roughly 12,000 to 29,000 copies, with a median around 21,000, derived from its 457 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $59K 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
1 observed day · window low $4.99Across 1 observed UTC day from 2026-10-29 to 2026-10-29, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $4.99 to $4.99. The tracked-window low was $4.99 on 2026-10-29.
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 (2026-10-29 06:32 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
linuxwindows
Genres
CasualIndieSimulation
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Winter Novel sold?
- indielist estimates Winter Novel has sold between 12,339 and 28,791 units (median 20,565), derived from its 457 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Winter Novel?
- Winter Novel was developed by DeXP and published by DeXP.
- Who published Winter Novel?
- Winter Novel was published by DeXP, developed by DeXP. See DeXP's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was Winter Novel released?
- Winter Novel was released in 2016.
- How many reviews does Winter Novel have on Steam?
- Winter Novel has 457 Steam reviews.
Ecosystem
Players looking for games like Winter Novel can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Casual titles such as Garry's Mod, Wallpaper Engine, Factorio, Balatro, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, DeXP's other releases and DeXP's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Winter Novel 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 Winter Novel page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Casual 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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