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Casual clicker and idler indie game Lyca leans into relaxing simulation play. Released in 2025 by syphono4 as developer and publisher, it has 1,141 Steam reviews at 83% positive and a budget $4.99 initial price.
Overview
Lyca is a 2025 Casual game developed by Syphono4 and published by Syphono4. On Steam it has gathered 1,204 player reviews, 83% of them positive, which counts as a mostly positive reception among indie titles in the Casual category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $5. The pairing of developer Syphono4 with publisher Syphono4 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 11,000 to 25,000 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, Lyca can be compared against similar Casual titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
1,204
Positive
83%
Steam appid
3421300
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.011K to 25K
units (median: 18K)
≈ $31K to $72K modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2025 | -10 |
| price_$5 | -20 |
| positive_83% | 0 |
| genre_Casual | -15 |
| final NB | 15 |
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 Lyca at roughly 11,000 to 25,000 copies, with a median around 18,000, derived from its 1,204 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $51K 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
15 observed days · window low $2.45Across 15 observed UTC days from 2026-06-03 to 2026-07-24, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $2.45 to $2.45. The tracked-window low was $2.45 on 2026-06-03.
Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.
Where to buy
Affiliate disclosure- Humble Store -51%$2.45 Buy
- Steam reference -50%$2.49 Buy
- Fanatical -48%$2.95 Buy
- Green Man Gaming -40%$2.99 Buy
- GOG.com
Latest tracked store observations (2026-07-24 05:58 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
windows
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Lyca sold?
- indielist estimates Lyca has sold between 10,836 and 25,284 units (median 18,060), derived from its 1,204 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Lyca?
- Lyca was developed by Syphono4 and published by Syphono4.
- Who published Lyca?
- Lyca was published by Syphono4, developed by Syphono4. See Syphono4's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was Lyca released?
- Lyca was released in 2025.
- How many reviews does Lyca have on Steam?
- Lyca has 1,204 Steam reviews, of which 83% are positive.
- Is Lyca worth playing?
- Steam players rate Lyca 83% positive across 1,204 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 Lyca can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Casual titles such as Nodebuster, Cookie Clicker, (the) Gnorp Apologue, Leaf Blower Revolution - Idle Game, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Syphono4's other releases and Syphono4's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Lyca 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 Lyca 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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- C
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- (
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- L
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Shared tags: Idler, Clicker, Casual
- M
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- T
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