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Action RPG Eastward, released in 2021, features pixel graphics and a story-rich adventure. Developed by Pixpil and published by Chucklefish, it has garnered 16,453 Steam reviews with an 84% positive rating.
Overview
Eastward is a 2021 Action game developed by Pixpil and published by Chucklefish. On Steam it has gathered 14,379 player reviews, 84% of them positive, which counts as a mostly positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on mac, windows, and launched at $25. The pairing of developer Pixpil with publisher Chucklefish 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 604,000 to 1.4 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, Eastward can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
14,379
Positive
84%
Steam appid
977880
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.0604K to 1.4M
units (median: 1.0M)
≈ $8.6M to $20.1M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2021 | +15 |
| price_$25 | +5 |
| positive_84% | 0 |
| final NB | 70 |
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 Eastward at roughly 604,000 to 1.4 million copies, with a median around 1.0 million, derived from its 14,379 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $14.4M 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
51 observed days · window low $12.49Across 51 observed UTC days from 2026-06-03 to 2026-07-28, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $12.49 to $24.99. The tracked-window low was $12.49 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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- Green Man Gaming$24.99 Buy
- GOG.com$24.99 Buy
- Fanatical
- Humble Store
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Platforms
macwindows
Tags
Pixel GraphicsStory RichAdventureSingleplayerAction RPGAtmosphericRPGPost-apocalypticActionJRPG2DCuteSoundtrackFemale ProtagonistRelaxingDarkMatureComedyIndieCasual
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Eastward sold?
- indielist estimates Eastward has sold between 603,918 and 1,409,142 units (median 1,006,530), derived from its 14,379 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Eastward?
- Eastward was developed by Pixpil and published by Chucklefish.
- Who published Eastward?
- Eastward was published by Chucklefish, developed by Pixpil. See Chucklefish's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was Eastward released?
- Eastward was released in 2021.
- How many reviews does Eastward have on Steam?
- Eastward has 14,379 Steam reviews, of which 84% are positive.
- Is Eastward worth playing?
- Steam players rate Eastward 84% positive across 14,379 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 Eastward can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Action titles such as CrossCode, LISA: The Painful, Celeste, Salt and Sanctuary, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Pixpil's other releases and Chucklefish's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Eastward 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 Eastward 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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