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Top-down cyberpunk open-world simulation frames Ostranauts as an Early Access indie game from developer Blue Bottle Games. Released in 2020 and published by Kitfox Games, it has 2,593 Steam reviews at 81% positive and an initial price of $19.99.
Overview
Ostranauts is a 2020 Indie game developed by Blue Bottle Games and published by Kitfox Games. On Steam it has gathered 2,589 player reviews, 81% of them positive, which counts as a mostly positive reception among indie titles in the Indie category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $20. The pairing of developer Blue Bottle Games with publisher Kitfox 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 101,000 to 236,000 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, Ostranauts can be compared against similar Indie titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
2,589
Positive
81%
Steam appid
1022980
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.0101K to 236K
units (median: 168K)
≈ $1.2M to $2.7M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2020 | +15 |
| price_$20 | 0 |
| positive_81% | 0 |
| final NB | 65 |
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 Ostranauts at roughly 101,000 to 236,000 copies, with a median around 168,000, derived from its 2,589 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $1.9M 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
15 observed days · window low $19.99Across 15 observed UTC days from 2026-06-03 to 2026-07-22, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $19.99 to $19.99. The tracked-window low was $19.99 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 Ostranauts sold?
- indielist estimates Ostranauts has sold between 100,971 and 235,599 units (median 168,285), derived from its 2,589 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Ostranauts?
- Ostranauts was developed by Blue Bottle Games and published by Kitfox Games.
- Who published Ostranauts?
- Ostranauts was published by Kitfox Games, developed by Blue Bottle Games. See Kitfox Games's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was Ostranauts released?
- Ostranauts was released in 2020.
- How many reviews does Ostranauts have on Steam?
- Ostranauts has 2,589 Steam reviews, of which 81% are positive.
- Is Ostranauts worth playing?
- Steam players rate Ostranauts 81% positive across 2,589 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 Ostranauts can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Indie titles such as Oxygen Not Included, Kerbal Space Program 2, Space Haven, Spaceflight Simulator, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Blue Bottle Games's other releases and Kitfox Games's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Ostranauts 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 Ostranauts 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.
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