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Casual indie game A Little to the Left launched in 2022 from developer max-inferno, published by Secret Mode. On Steam it has 18,209 reviews with 92% positive ratings, and its initial price was $14.99.
Overview
A Little to the Left is a 2022 Casual game developed by Max Inferno and published by Secret Mode. On Steam it has gathered 16,484 player reviews, 92% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Casual category. The game is available on mac, windows, and launched at $15. The pairing of developer Max Inferno with publisher Secret Mode 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 445,000 to 1.0 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, A Little to the Left can be compared against similar Casual titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
16,484
Positive
92%
Steam appid
1629520
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.0445K to 1.0M
units (median: 742K)
≈ $3.8M to $8.9M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2022 | 0 |
| price_$15 | 0 |
| positive_92% | +10 |
| genre_Casual | -15 |
| final NB | 45 |
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 A Little to the Left at roughly 445,000 to 1.0 million copies, with a median around 742,000, derived from its 16,484 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $6.4M 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
41 observed days · window low $5.99Across 41 observed UTC days from 2026-06-12 to 2026-07-22, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $5.99 to $14.99. The tracked-window low was $5.99 on 2026-06-26.
Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.
Where to buy
Affiliate disclosure- Steam reference$14.99 Buy
- Green Man Gaming$14.99 Buy
- Fanatical -5%$16.25 Buy
- Humble Store
- GOG.com
Latest tracked store observations (2026-07-22 17:54 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
macwindows
Genres
CasualIndie
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has A Little to the Left sold?
- indielist estimates A Little to the Left has sold between 445,068 and 1,038,492 units (median 741,780), derived from its 16,484 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed A Little to the Left?
- A Little to the Left was developed by Max Inferno and published by Secret Mode.
- Who published A Little to the Left?
- A Little to the Left was published by Secret Mode, developed by Max Inferno. See Secret Mode's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was A Little to the Left released?
- A Little to the Left was released in 2022.
- How many reviews does A Little to the Left have on Steam?
- A Little to the Left has 16,484 Steam reviews, of which 92% are positive.
- Is A Little to the Left worth playing?
- Steam players rate A Little to the Left 92% positive across 16,484 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 A Little to the Left 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, Max Inferno's other releases and Secret Mode's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where A Little to the Left 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 A Little to the Left 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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