How many copies has Ancient Cities sold?

indielist estimates Ancient Cities has sold between 50,976 and 118,944 units (median 84,960), derived from its 1,888 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.

Who developed Ancient Cities?

Ancient Cities was developed by Uncasual Games and published by Uncasual Games.

Who published Ancient Cities?

Ancient Cities was published by Uncasual Games, developed by Uncasual Games. See Uncasual Games's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.

When was Ancient Cities released?

Ancient Cities was released in 2023.

How many reviews does Ancient Cities have on Steam?

Ancient Cities has 1,888 Steam reviews, of which 63% are positive.

Is Ancient Cities worth playing?

Steam players rate Ancient Cities 63% positive across 1,888 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.

Ancient Cities

Mar 24, 2023 Indie $29.99

Developer Uncasual Games Publisher Uncasual Games

Profile updated May 2026

Ancient Cities is an indie simulation and strategy game released in 2023. It has garnered 1,857 reviews on Steam. Publisher and developer attribution are not yet imported.

Ancient Cities is a 2023 Indie game developed by Uncasual Games and published by Uncasual Games. On Steam it has gathered 1,888 player reviews, 63% of them positive, which counts as a mixed reception among indie titles in the Indie category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $30. The pairing of developer Uncasual Games with publisher Uncasual Games is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Indie projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 51,000 to 119,000 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, Ancient Cities can be compared against similar Indie titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.

Reviews

1,888

Positive

63%

Steam appid

667610

Engine

Unknown

Players (snapshot)

Historical snapshot · 2026-05-24 08:35 UTC

Sales estimate

v1.0

51K to 119K

units (median: 85K)

≈ $873K to $2.0M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)

51K median 119K

+ How is this calculated?

1,888 reviews × NB(45) = 84,960 median units

Factor	Adjustment
base	+50
year_2023	0
price_$30	+5
positive_63%	-10
final NB	45

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 Ancient Cities at roughly 51,000 to 119,000 copies, with a median around 85,000, derived from its 1,888 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $1.5M 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

19 observed days · window low $14.99

Across 19 observed UTC days from 2026-05-31 to 2026-07-23, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $14.99 to $29.99. The tracked-window low was $14.99 on 2026-07-15.

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

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Platforms

windows

Frequently asked questions

How many copies has Ancient Cities sold?: indielist estimates Ancient Cities has sold between 50,976 and 118,944 units (median 84,960), derived from its 1,888 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
Who developed Ancient Cities?: Ancient Cities was developed by Uncasual Games and published by Uncasual Games.
Who published Ancient Cities?: Ancient Cities was published by Uncasual Games, developed by Uncasual Games. See Uncasual Games's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
When was Ancient Cities released?: Ancient Cities was released in 2023.
How many reviews does Ancient Cities have on Steam?: Ancient Cities has 1,888 Steam reviews, of which 63% are positive.
Is Ancient Cities worth playing?: Steam players rate Ancient Cities 63% positive across 1,888 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 Ancient Cities can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Indie titles such as Banished, Going Medieval, Captain of Industry, Endzone - A World Apart, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Uncasual Games's other releases and Uncasual Games's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Ancient Cities 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 Ancient Cities page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Indie 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.