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Casual indie game players looking for a low-cost option can note ISLANDERS: New Shores’ $9.99 initial price. Released in 2025 by developer the-station and publisher Coatsink, it has 1,224 Steam reviews with 96% positive, marked overwhelmingly positive.
Overview
ISLANDERS: New Shores is a 2025 Casual game developed by The Station and published by Coatsink. On Steam it has gathered 1,193 player reviews, 96% of them positive, which counts as a overwhelmingly positive reception among indie titles in the Casual category. The game is available on mac, windows, and launched at $10. The pairing of developer The Station with publisher Coatsink is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Casual projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 21,000 to 50,000 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, ISLANDERS: New Shores can be compared against similar Casual titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
1,193
Positive
96%
Steam appid
2368930
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.021K to 50K
units (median: 36K)
≈ $123K to $286K modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2025 | -10 |
| price_$10 | -5 |
| positive_96% | +10 |
| genre_Casual | -15 |
| 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 ISLANDERS: New Shores at roughly 21,000 to 50,000 copies, with a median around 36,000, derived from its 1,193 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $204K 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 $6.42Across 14 observed UTC days from 2026-06-03 to 2026-07-22, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $6.42 to $9.99. The tracked-window low was $6.42 on 2026-06-06.
Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.
Where to buy
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Platforms
macwindows
Genres
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has ISLANDERS: New Shores sold?
- indielist estimates ISLANDERS: New Shores has sold between 21,474 and 50,106 units (median 35,790), derived from its 1,193 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed ISLANDERS: New Shores?
- ISLANDERS: New Shores was developed by The Station and published by Coatsink.
- Who published ISLANDERS: New Shores?
- ISLANDERS: New Shores was published by Coatsink, developed by The Station. See Coatsink's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was ISLANDERS: New Shores released?
- ISLANDERS: New Shores was released in 2025.
- How many reviews does ISLANDERS: New Shores have on Steam?
- ISLANDERS: New Shores has 1,193 Steam reviews, of which 96% are positive.
- Is ISLANDERS: New Shores worth playing?
- Steam players rate ISLANDERS: New Shores 96% positive across 1,193 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 ISLANDERS: New Shores can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Casual titles such as Garry's Mod, Wallpaper Engine, Factorio, Balatro, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, The Station's other releases and Coatsink's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where ISLANDERS: New Shores 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 ISLANDERS: New Shores page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Casual 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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