How many copies has Back to the Dawn sold?

indielist estimates Back to the Dawn has sold between 328,731 and 767,039 units (median 547,885), derived from its 8,429 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.

Who developed Back to the Dawn?

Back to the Dawn was developed by Metal Head Games and published by Spiral Up Games.

Who published Back to the Dawn?

Back to the Dawn was published by Spiral Up Games, developed by Metal Head Games. See Spiral Up Games's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.

When was Back to the Dawn released?

Back to the Dawn was released in 2025.

How many reviews does Back to the Dawn have on Steam?

Back to the Dawn has 8,429 Steam reviews, of which 95% are positive.

Is Back to the Dawn worth playing?

Steam players rate Back to the Dawn 95% positive across 8,429 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.

Back to the Dawn

Jul 17, 2025 Adventure $23.99

Developer Metal Head Games Publisher Spiral Up Games

Profile updated May 2026

This Adventure RPG simulation game, Back to the Dawn, is slated for a 2025 release. With 8,233 Steam reviews already logged, it signals strong player interest. The developer and publisher attribution is not yet imported.

Back to the Dawn is a 2025 Adventure game developed by Metal Head Games and published by Spiral Up Games. On Steam it has gathered 8,429 player reviews, 95% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Adventure category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $24. The pairing of developer Metal Head Games with publisher Spiral Up Games 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 329,000 to 767,000 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, Back to the Dawn can be compared against similar Adventure titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.

Reviews

8,429

Positive

95%

Steam appid

1735700

Engine

Unknown

Players (snapshot)

544

Historical snapshot · 2026-05-24 13:10 UTC

Sales estimate

v1.0

329K to 767K

units (median: 548K)

≈ $4.5M to $10.5M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)

329K median 767K

+ How is this calculated?

8,429 reviews × NB(65) = 547,885 median units

Factor	Adjustment
base	+50
year_2025	-10
price_$24	+5
positive_95%	+10
genre_Adventure	+10
final NB	65

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 Back to the Dawn at roughly 329,000 to 767,000 copies, with a median around 548,000, derived from its 8,429 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $7.5M 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

54 observed days · window low $19.19

Across 54 observed UTC days from 2026-05-31 to 2026-07-24, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $19.19 to $23.99. The tracked-window low was $19.19 on 2026-06-21.

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Platforms

windows

Frequently asked questions

How many copies has Back to the Dawn sold?: indielist estimates Back to the Dawn has sold between 328,731 and 767,039 units (median 547,885), derived from its 8,429 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
Who developed Back to the Dawn?: Back to the Dawn was developed by Metal Head Games and published by Spiral Up Games.
Who published Back to the Dawn?: Back to the Dawn was published by Spiral Up Games, developed by Metal Head Games. See Spiral Up Games's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
When was Back to the Dawn released?: Back to the Dawn was released in 2025.
How many reviews does Back to the Dawn have on Steam?: Back to the Dawn has 8,429 Steam reviews, of which 95% are positive.
Is Back to the Dawn worth playing?: Steam players rate Back to the Dawn 95% positive across 8,429 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.

Players looking for games like Back to the Dawn can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Adventure titles such as Roadwarden, Kindergarten, Beholder: Conductor, The Scroll of Taiwu : Beyond The Dome, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Metal Head Games's other releases and Spiral Up Games's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Back to the Dawn 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 Back to the Dawn 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.

Matched from shared Steam tags and primary genre. Review count breaks ties; it is not a personal recommendation score.