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Adventure indie game Drifter Star: Evolution launched in 2025 from developer kayla-studio and publisher happy-kayla. It has 969 Steam reviews at 74% positive, a mixed-to-positive signal, and a low initial price of $3.99.
Overview
Drifter Star: Evolution is a 2025 Adventure game developed by Kayla Studio and published by Happy Kayla. On Steam it has gathered 1,034 player reviews, 74% of them positive, which counts as a mixed-to-positive reception among indie titles in the Adventure category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $4. The pairing of developer Kayla Studio with publisher Happy Kayla 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 19,000 to 43,000 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, Drifter Star: Evolution can be compared against similar Adventure titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
1,034
Positive
74%
Steam appid
4067130
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.019K to 43K
units (median: 31K)
≈ $42K to $99K modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2025 | -10 |
| price_$4 | -20 |
| positive_74% | 0 |
| genre_Adventure | +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 Drifter Star: Evolution at roughly 19,000 to 43,000 copies, with a median around 31,000, derived from its 1,034 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $71K 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
14 observed days · window low $3.99Across 14 observed UTC days from 2026-06-03 to 2026-07-22, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $3.99 to $3.99. The tracked-window low was $3.99 on 2026-06-03.
Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.
Where to buy
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Platforms
windows
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Drifter Star: Evolution sold?
- indielist estimates Drifter Star: Evolution has sold between 18,612 and 43,428 units (median 31,020), derived from its 1,034 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Drifter Star: Evolution?
- Drifter Star: Evolution was developed by Kayla Studio and published by Happy Kayla.
- Who published Drifter Star: Evolution?
- Drifter Star: Evolution was published by Happy Kayla, developed by Kayla Studio. See Happy Kayla's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was Drifter Star: Evolution released?
- Drifter Star: Evolution was released in 2025.
- How many reviews does Drifter Star: Evolution have on Steam?
- Drifter Star: Evolution has 1,034 Steam reviews, of which 74% are positive.
- Is Drifter Star: Evolution worth playing?
- Steam players rate Drifter Star: Evolution 74% positive across 1,034 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 Drifter Star: Evolution 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, Kayla Studio's other releases and Happy Kayla's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Drifter Star: Evolution 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 Drifter Star: Evolution 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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