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Wax Heads is an upcoming adventure game scheduled for release in 2026. This indie title, tagged as Adventure and Simulation, currently has 199 reviews on Steam. Publisher and developer attribution is not yet imported.
Overview
Wax Heads is a 2026 Adventure game developed by Patattie Games and published by Curve Games. On Steam it has gathered 499 player reviews, 97% of them positive, which counts as a overwhelmingly positive reception among indie titles in the Adventure category. The game is available on linux, windows, and launched at $15. The pairing of developer Patattie Games with publisher Curve Games 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 18,000 to 42,000 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, Wax Heads can be compared against similar Adventure titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
499
Positive
97%
Steam appid
2769240
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
36
Historical snapshot ·
Sales estimate
v1.018K to 42K
units (median: 30K)
≈ $154K to $359K modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2026 | -10 |
| price_$15 | 0 |
| positive_97% | +10 |
| genre_Adventure | +10 |
| final NB | 60 |
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 Wax Heads at roughly 18,000 to 42,000 copies, with a median around 30,000, derived from its 499 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $256K 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
11 observed days · window low $14.99Across 11 observed UTC days from 2026-05-31 to 2026-07-22, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $14.99 to $14.99. The tracked-window low was $14.99 on 2026-05-31.
Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.
Where to buy
Affiliate disclosure- Steam reference$14.99 Buy
- Humble Store$14.99 Buy
- Fanatical -10%$15.39 Buy
- Green Man Gaming
- GOG.com
Latest tracked store observations (2026-07-22 20:25 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
linuxwindows
Genres
AdventureIndieSimulation
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Wax Heads sold?
- indielist estimates Wax Heads has sold between 17,964 and 41,916 units (median 29,940), derived from its 499 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Wax Heads?
- Wax Heads was developed by Patattie Games and published by Curve Games.
- Who published Wax Heads?
- Wax Heads was published by Curve Games, developed by Patattie Games. See Curve Games's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was Wax Heads released?
- Wax Heads was released in 2026.
- How many reviews does Wax Heads have on Steam?
- Wax Heads has 499 Steam reviews, of which 97% are positive.
- Is Wax Heads worth playing?
- Steam players rate Wax Heads 97% positive across 499 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 Wax Heads can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Adventure titles such as Subnautica, Raft, Satisfactory, Human Fall Flat, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Patattie Games's other releases and Curve Games's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Wax Heads 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 Wax Heads 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.
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