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Action-focused indie game The Front launched in 2025 from Samar Studio, which is listed as both developer and publisher. On Steam it has 10,723 reviews with 67% positive sentiment, a mixed-to-positive signal, and an initial price of $19.99.
Overview
The Front is a 2025 Action game developed by Samar Studio and published by Samar Studio. On Steam it has gathered 9,571 player reviews, 67% of them positive, which counts as a mixed-to-positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $20. The pairing of developer Samar Studio with publisher Samar 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 172,000 to 402,000 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, The Front can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
9,571
Positive
67%
Steam appid
2285150
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.0172K to 402K
units (median: 287K)
≈ $2.0M to $4.6M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2025 | -10 |
| price_$20 | 0 |
| positive_67% | -10 |
| final NB | 30 |
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 The Front at roughly 172,000 to 402,000 copies, with a median around 287,000, derived from its 9,571 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $3.3M 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
23 observed days · window low $9.99Across 23 observed UTC days from 2026-07-01 to 2026-07-24, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $9.99 to $9.99. The tracked-window low was $9.99 on 2026-07-01.
Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.
Where to buy
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Platforms
windows
Genres
ActionIndieMassively MultiplayerSimulation
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has The Front sold?
- indielist estimates The Front has sold between 172,278 and 401,982 units (median 287,130), derived from its 9,571 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed The Front?
- The Front was developed by Samar Studio and published by Samar Studio.
- Who published The Front?
- The Front was published by Samar Studio, developed by Samar Studio. See Samar Studio's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was The Front released?
- The Front was released in 2025.
- How many reviews does The Front have on Steam?
- The Front has 9,571 Steam reviews, of which 67% are positive.
- Is The Front worth playing?
- Steam players rate The Front 67% positive across 9,571 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 The Front can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Action titles such as Rust, Terraria, Phasmophobia, ARK: Survival Evolved, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Samar Studio's other releases and Samar Studio's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where The Front 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 The Front 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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