How many copies has Hylics sold?

indielist estimates Hylics has sold between 343,854 and 802,326 units (median 573,090), derived from its 8,187 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.

Who published Hylics?

Hylics was published by Mason Lindroth, developed by Mason Lindroth. See Mason Lindroth's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.

How many reviews does Hylics have on Steam?

Hylics has 8,187 Steam reviews, of which 98% are positive.

Is Hylics worth playing?

Steam players rate Hylics 98% positive across 8,187 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.

Hylics

Oct 2, 2015 Indie $2.99

Developer Mason Lindroth Publisher Mason Lindroth

Profile updated Jun 2026

This surreal RPGMaker title, released in 2015, features abstract visuals and a unique gameplay loop. Developed and published by mason-lindroth, it has garnered 8,698 Steam reviews with 98% positive feedback.

Hylics is a 2015 Indie game developed by Mason Lindroth and published by Mason Lindroth. On Steam it has gathered 8,187 player reviews, 98% of them positive, which counts as a overwhelmingly positive reception among indie titles in the Indie category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $3. The pairing of developer Mason Lindroth with publisher Mason Lindroth 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 344,000 to 802,000 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, Hylics can be compared against similar Indie titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.

Reviews

8,187

Positive

98%

Steam appid

397740

Engine

Unknown

Players (snapshot)

Unavailable

Sales estimate

v1.0

344K to 802K

units (median: 573K)

≈ $587K to $1.4M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)

344K median 802K

+ How is this calculated?

8,187 reviews × NB(70) = 573,090 median units

Factor	Adjustment
base	+50
year_2015	+30
price_$3	-20
positive_98%	+10
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 Hylics at roughly 344,000 to 802,000 copies, with a median around 573,000, derived from its 8,187 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $979K 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 $0.98

Across 51 observed UTC days from 2026-06-03 to 2026-07-24, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $0.98 to $2.99. The tracked-window low was $0.98 on 2026-07-01.

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 Hylics sold?: indielist estimates Hylics has sold between 343,854 and 802,326 units (median 573,090), derived from its 8,187 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
Who developed Hylics?: Hylics was developed by Mason Lindroth and published by Mason Lindroth.
Who published Hylics?: Hylics was published by Mason Lindroth, developed by Mason Lindroth. See Mason Lindroth's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
When was Hylics released?: Hylics was released in 2015.
How many reviews does Hylics have on Steam?: Hylics has 8,187 Steam reviews, of which 98% are positive.
Is Hylics worth playing?: Steam players rate Hylics 98% positive across 8,187 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 Hylics can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Indie titles such as Felvidek, OMORI, Chained Echoes, UnderRail, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Mason Lindroth's other releases and Mason Lindroth's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Hylics 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 Hylics 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.