How many copies has Circle Empires sold?

indielist estimates Circle Empires has sold between 122,925 and 286,825 units (median 204,875), derived from its 3,725 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.

Who developed Circle Empires?

Circle Empires was developed by Luminous and published by Iceberg Interactive.

Who published Circle Empires?

Circle Empires was published by Iceberg Interactive, developed by Luminous. See Iceberg Interactive's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.

When was Circle Empires released?

Circle Empires was released in 2018.

How many reviews does Circle Empires have on Steam?

Circle Empires has 3,725 Steam reviews, of which 90% are positive.

Is Circle Empires worth playing?

Steam players rate Circle Empires 90% positive across 3,725 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.

Circle Empires

Aug 8, 2018 Casual $8.99

Developer Luminous Publisher Iceberg Interactive

Profile updated Jul 2026

Casual indie game Circle Empires offers a budget-priced option at $8.99. Released in 2018 by developer luminous and publisher iceberg-interactive, it has 4,153 Steam reviews with 90% positive sentiment, rated Very Positive.

Circle Empires is a 2018 Casual game developed by Luminous and published by Iceberg Interactive. On Steam it has gathered 3,725 player reviews, 90% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Casual category. The game is available on linux, mac, windows, and launched at $9. The pairing of developer Luminous with publisher Iceberg Interactive 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 123,000 to 287,000 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, Circle Empires can be compared against similar Casual titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.

Reviews

3,725

Positive

90%

Steam appid

834740

Engine

Unknown

Players (snapshot)

Unavailable

Sales estimate

v1.0

123K to 287K

units (median: 205K)

≈ $631K to $1.5M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)

123K median 287K

+ How is this calculated?

3,725 reviews × NB(55) = 204,875 median units

Factor	Adjustment
base	+50
year_2018	+15
price_$9	-5
positive_90%	+10
genre_Casual	-15
final NB	55

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 Circle Empires at roughly 123,000 to 287,000 copies, with a median around 205,000, derived from its 3,725 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $1.1M 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

8 observed days · window low $1.79

Across 8 observed UTC days from 2026-07-15 to 2026-07-22, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $1.79 to $7.99. The tracked-window low was $1.79 on 2026-07-15.

Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.

Where to buy

Affiliate disclosure

Steam reference -80%

$1.79 Buy
Green Man Gaming

$8.99 Buy
Humble Store

$8.99 Buy
GOG.com

$8.99 Buy
Fanatical -10%

$9.02 Buy

Latest tracked store observations (2026-07-22 04:33 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

linuxmacwindows

Genres

CasualIndieStrategy

Frequently asked questions

How many copies has Circle Empires sold?: indielist estimates Circle Empires has sold between 122,925 and 286,825 units (median 204,875), derived from its 3,725 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
Who developed Circle Empires?: Circle Empires was developed by Luminous and published by Iceberg Interactive.
Who published Circle Empires?: Circle Empires was published by Iceberg Interactive, developed by Luminous. See Iceberg Interactive's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
When was Circle Empires released?: Circle Empires was released in 2018.
How many reviews does Circle Empires have on Steam?: Circle Empires has 3,725 Steam reviews, of which 90% are positive.
Is Circle Empires worth playing?: Steam players rate Circle Empires 90% positive across 3,725 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 Circle Empires 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, Luminous's other releases and Iceberg Interactive's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Circle Empires 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 Circle Empires 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.

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