How many copies has Paratopic sold?

indielist estimates Paratopic has sold between 55,776 and 130,144 units (median 92,960), derived from its 1,328 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.

Who published Paratopic?

Paratopic was published by Serenity Forge, developed by Arbitrary Metric. See Serenity Forge's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.

When was Paratopic released?

Paratopic was released in 2018.

How many reviews does Paratopic have on Steam?

Paratopic has 1,328 Steam reviews, of which 73% are positive.

Is Paratopic worth playing?

Steam players rate Paratopic 73% positive across 1,328 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.

Paratopic

Sep 6, 2018 Adventure $5.49

Developer Arbitrary Metric Publisher Serenity Forge

Profile updated Jun 2026

Adventure indie game Paratopic comes from developer Arbitrary Metric and was published by Serenity Forge. Released in 2018, it has 1,314 Steam reviews marked mixed and an initial budget price of $5.49.

Paratopic is a 2018 Adventure game developed by Arbitrary Metric and published by Serenity Forge. On Steam it has gathered 1,328 player reviews, 73% of them positive, which counts as a mixed-to-positive reception among indie titles in the Adventure category. The game is available on linux, mac, windows, and launched at $5. The pairing of developer Arbitrary Metric with publisher Serenity Forge 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 56,000 to 130,000 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, Paratopic can be compared against similar Adventure titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.

Reviews

1,328

Positive

73%

Steam appid

897030

Engine

Unknown

Players (snapshot)

Unavailable

Sales estimate

v1.0

56K to 130K

units (median: 93K)

≈ $175K to $408K modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)

56K median 130K

+ How is this calculated?

1,328 reviews × NB(70) = 92,960 median units

Factor	Adjustment
base	+50
year_2018	+15
price_$5	-5
positive_73%	0
genre_Adventure	+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 Paratopic at roughly 56,000 to 130,000 copies, with a median around 93,000, derived from its 1,328 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $292K 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

8 observed days · window low $5.49

Across 8 observed UTC days from 2026-07-15 to 2026-07-22, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $5.49 to $5.49. The tracked-window low was $5.49 on 2026-07-15.

Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.

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Platforms

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Genres

AdventureIndie

Frequently asked questions

How many copies has Paratopic sold?: indielist estimates Paratopic has sold between 55,776 and 130,144 units (median 92,960), derived from its 1,328 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
Who developed Paratopic?: Paratopic was developed by Arbitrary Metric and published by Serenity Forge.
Who published Paratopic?: Paratopic was published by Serenity Forge, developed by Arbitrary Metric. See Serenity Forge's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
When was Paratopic released?: Paratopic was released in 2018.
How many reviews does Paratopic have on Steam?: Paratopic has 1,328 Steam reviews, of which 73% are positive.
Is Paratopic worth playing?: Steam players rate Paratopic 73% positive across 1,328 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 Paratopic 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, Arbitrary Metric's other releases and Serenity Forge's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Paratopic 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 Paratopic 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.

Matched from shared Steam tags and primary genre. Review count breaks ties; it is not a personal recommendation score.