How many copies has Close To The Sun sold?

indielist estimates Close To The Sun has sold between 38,655 and 90,195 units (median 64,425), derived from its 859 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.

Who developed Close To The Sun?

Close To The Sun was developed by Storm in a Teacup and published by Wired Productions.

Who published Close To The Sun?

Close To The Sun was published by Wired Productions, developed by Storm in a Teacup. See Wired Productions's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.

When was Close To The Sun released?

Close To The Sun was released in 2020.

How many reviews does Close To The Sun have on Steam?

Close To The Sun has 859 Steam reviews, of which 74% are positive.

Is Close To The Sun worth playing?

Steam players rate Close To The Sun 74% positive across 859 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.

Close To The Sun

May 5, 2020 Adventure $19.99

Developer Storm in a Teacup Publisher Wired Productions

Profile updated May 2026

Close To The Sun is an adventure game released in 2020. It has garnered 822 positive reviews on Steam.

Close To The Sun is a 2020 Adventure game developed by Storm in a Teacup and published by Wired Productions. On Steam it has gathered 859 player reviews, 74% of them positive, which counts as a mixed-to-positive reception among indie titles in the Adventure category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $20. The pairing of developer Storm in a Teacup with publisher Wired Productions 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 39,000 to 90,000 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, Close To The Sun can be compared against similar Adventure titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.

Reviews

859

Positive

74%

Steam appid

968870

Engine

Unknown

Players (snapshot)

Historical snapshot · 2026-05-24 09:30 UTC

Sales estimate

v1.0

39K to 90K

units (median: 64K)

≈ $441K to $1.0M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)

39K median 90K

+ How is this calculated?

859 reviews × NB(75) = 64,425 median units

Factor	Adjustment
base	+50
year_2020	+15
price_$20	0
positive_74%	0
genre_Adventure	+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 Close To The Sun at roughly 39,000 to 90,000 copies, with a median around 64,000, derived from its 859 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $736K 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

18 observed days · window low $1.99

Across 18 observed UTC days from 2026-05-31 to 2026-07-24, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $1.99 to $19.99. The tracked-window low was $1.99 on 2026-05-31.

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

Where to buy

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Platforms

windows

Frequently asked questions

How many copies has Close To The Sun sold?: indielist estimates Close To The Sun has sold between 38,655 and 90,195 units (median 64,425), derived from its 859 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
Who developed Close To The Sun?: Close To The Sun was developed by Storm in a Teacup and published by Wired Productions.
Who published Close To The Sun?: Close To The Sun was published by Wired Productions, developed by Storm in a Teacup. See Wired Productions's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
When was Close To The Sun released?: Close To The Sun was released in 2020.
How many reviews does Close To The Sun have on Steam?: Close To The Sun has 859 Steam reviews, of which 74% are positive.
Is Close To The Sun worth playing?: Steam players rate Close To The Sun 74% positive across 859 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 Close To The Sun can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Adventure titles such as Scorn, What Remains of Edith Finch, Mouthwashing, Return of the Obra Dinn, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Storm in a Teacup's other releases and Wired Productions's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Close To The Sun 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 Close To The Sun 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.