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Action-focused gameplay defines Tails of Iron, a 2021 release with 12,655 Steam reviews marked 0% positive and mixed. The developer slug is listed as unknown, and the game is self-published by the same unknown developer at an initial price of $24.99.
Overview
Tails of Iron is a 2021 Action game developed by Odd Bug Studio and published by United Label. On Steam it has gathered 12,922 player reviews, 88% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on linux, mac, windows, and launched at $25. The pairing of developer Odd Bug Studio with publisher United Label 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 620,000 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, Tails of Iron can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
12,922
Positive
88%
Steam appid
1283410
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.0620K to 1.4M
units (median: 1.0M)
≈ $8.9M to $20.7M 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_88% | +10 |
| final NB | 80 |
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 Tails of Iron at roughly 620,000 to 1.4 million copies, with a median around 1.0 million, derived from its 12,922 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $14.8M 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
46 observed days · window low $2.99Across 46 observed UTC days from 2026-06-08 to 2026-07-28, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $2.99 to $24.99. The tracked-window low was $2.99 on 2026-06-26.
Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.
Where to buy
Affiliate disclosure- Green Man Gaming -84%$4.03 Buy
- Steam reference$24.99 Buy
- Humble Store$24.99 Buy
- GOG.com$24.99 Buy
- Fanatical -10%$25.58 Buy
Latest tracked store observations (2026-07-05 05:32 UTC to 2026-07-28 05:31 UTC), cheapest first. Prices may have changed since observation. Some are affiliate links — we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. Learn more.
Platforms
linuxmacwindows
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Tails of Iron sold?
- indielist estimates Tails of Iron has sold between 620,256 and 1,447,264 units (median 1,033,760), derived from its 12,922 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Tails of Iron?
- Tails of Iron was developed by Odd Bug Studio and published by United Label.
- Who published Tails of Iron?
- Tails of Iron was published by United Label, developed by Odd Bug Studio. See United Label's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was Tails of Iron released?
- Tails of Iron was released in 2021.
- How many reviews does Tails of Iron have on Steam?
- Tails of Iron has 12,922 Steam reviews, of which 88% are positive.
- Is Tails of Iron worth playing?
- Steam players rate Tails of Iron 88% positive across 12,922 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 Tails of Iron can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Action titles such as ENDER MAGNOLIA: Bloom in the Mist, Salt and Sanctuary, Drova - Forsaken Kin, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Odd Bug Studio's other releases and United Label's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Tails of Iron 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 Tails of Iron 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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