How many copies has The Isle sold?

indielist estimates The Isle has sold between 5,170,080 and 12,063,520 units (median 8,616,800), derived from its 107,710 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.

Who published The Isle?

The Isle was published by Afterthought LLC, developed by Afterthought LLC. See Afterthought LLC's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.

How many reviews does The Isle have on Steam?

The Isle has 107,710 Steam reviews, of which 80% are positive.

Is The Isle worth playing?

Steam players rate The Isle 80% positive across 107,710 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.

The Isle

Dec 1, 2015 Action $19.99

Developer Afterthought LLC Publisher Afterthought LLC

Profile updated May 2026

This action/adventure simulation game, released in 2015, features massively multiplayer gameplay. It has garnered over 102,985 reviews on Steam. The developer and publisher attribution is currently unavailable.

The Isle is a 2015 Action game developed by Afterthought LLC and published by Afterthought LLC. On Steam it has gathered 107,710 player reviews, 80% of them positive, which counts as a mostly positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $20. The pairing of developer Afterthought LLC with publisher Afterthought LLC 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 5.2 million to 12.1 million 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 Isle can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.

Reviews

107,710

Positive

80%

Steam appid

376210

Engine

Unknown

Players (snapshot)

9,259

Historical snapshot · 2026-07-23 09:40 UTC

Sales estimate

v1.0

5.2M to 12.1M

units (median: 8.6M)

≈ $59.0M to $137.7M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)

5.2M median 12.1M

+ How is this calculated?

107,710 reviews × NB(80) = 8,616,800 median units

Factor	Adjustment
base	+50
year_2015	+30
price_$20	0
positive_80%	0
final NB	80

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 Isle at roughly 5.2 million to 12.1 million copies, with a median around 8.6 million, derived from its 107,710 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $98.4M 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 $13.39

Across 54 observed UTC days from 2026-05-31 to 2026-07-24, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $13.39 to $19.99. The tracked-window low was $13.39 on 2026-06-26.

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

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Platforms

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Frequently asked questions

How many copies has The Isle sold?: indielist estimates The Isle has sold between 5,170,080 and 12,063,520 units (median 8,616,800), derived from its 107,710 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
Who developed The Isle?: The Isle was developed by Afterthought LLC and published by Afterthought LLC.
Who published The Isle?: The Isle was published by Afterthought LLC, developed by Afterthought LLC. See Afterthought LLC's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
When was The Isle released?: The Isle was released in 2015.
How many reviews does The Isle have on Steam?: The Isle has 107,710 Steam reviews, of which 80% are positive.
Is The Isle worth playing?: Steam players rate The Isle 80% positive across 107,710 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 The Isle can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Action titles such as Beasts of Bermuda, ARK: Survival Evolved, Feed and Grow: Fish, Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Afterthought LLC's other releases and Afterthought LLC's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where The Isle 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 Isle 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.

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