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Action indie game Within the Blade has a 2019 release and a budget-friendly $10.99 initial price. It is self-published by ametist-studio and has 356 Steam reviews with 86% positive sentiment, fitting an underrated hidden gem profile.
Overview
Within the blade is a 2019 Action game developed by Ametist studio and published by Ametist studio. On Steam it has gathered 301 player reviews, 86% 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 $11. The pairing of developer Ametist studio with publisher Ametist studio 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 14,000 to 32,000 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, Within the blade can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
301
Positive
86%
Steam appid
622870
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.014K to 32K
units (median: 23K)
≈ $85K to $198K modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2019 | +15 |
| price_$11 | 0 |
| positive_86% | +10 |
| final NB | 75 |
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 Within the blade at roughly 14,000 to 32,000 copies, with a median around 23,000, derived from its 301 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $142K 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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- Green Man Gaming
- Fanatical
- Humble Store
- GOG.com
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Platforms
windows
Genres
ActionIndie
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Within the blade sold?
- indielist estimates Within the blade has sold between 13,545 and 31,605 units (median 22,575), derived from its 301 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Within the blade?
- Within the blade was developed by Ametist studio and published by Ametist studio.
- Who published Within the blade?
- Within the blade was published by Ametist studio, developed by Ametist studio. See Ametist studio's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was Within the blade released?
- Within the blade was released in 2019.
- How many reviews does Within the blade have on Steam?
- Within the blade has 301 Steam reviews, of which 86% are positive.
- Is Within the blade worth playing?
- Steam players rate Within the blade 86% positive across 301 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 Within the blade 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, Ametist studio's other releases and Ametist studio's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Within the blade 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 Within the blade 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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