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Astral Ascent is an action-adventure indie game released in 2023. It has garnered 5,177 Steam reviews. The developer and publisher attribution is not yet imported.
Overview
Astral Ascent is a 2023 Action game developed by Hibernian Workshop and published by Hibernian Workshop. On Steam it has gathered 8,469 player reviews, 95% 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 Hibernian Workshop with publisher Hibernian Workshop 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 330,000 to 771,000 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, Astral Ascent can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
8,469
Positive
95%
Steam appid
1280930
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
1,045
Historical snapshot ·
Sales estimate
v1.0330K to 771K
units (median: 550K)
≈ $4.7M to $11.0M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2023 | 0 |
| price_$25 | +5 |
| positive_95% | +10 |
| 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 Astral Ascent at roughly 330,000 to 771,000 copies, with a median around 550,000, derived from its 8,469 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $7.9M 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
54 observed days · window low $9.99Across 54 observed UTC days from 2026-05-31 to 2026-07-24, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $9.99 to $24.99. The tracked-window low was $9.99 on 2026-06-18.
Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.
Where to buy
Affiliate disclosure- Steam reference$24.99 Buy
- Humble Store$24.99 Buy
- GOG.com$24.99 Buy
- Fanatical -10%$25.09 Buy
- Green Man Gaming
Latest tracked store observations (2026-07-24 05:48 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
Tags
Action RoguelikeRogue-liteHack and SlashIndieAtmosphericReplay ValueDifficultStory RichAnimeHand-drawnRogue-likeMagicPerma DeathActionPixel GraphicsFantasyCo-opSingleplayerPlatformerLocal Co-Op
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Astral Ascent sold?
- indielist estimates Astral Ascent has sold between 330,291 and 770,679 units (median 550,485), derived from its 8,469 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Astral Ascent?
- Astral Ascent was developed by Hibernian Workshop and published by Hibernian Workshop.
- Who published Astral Ascent?
- Astral Ascent was published by Hibernian Workshop, developed by Hibernian Workshop. See Hibernian Workshop's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was Astral Ascent released?
- Astral Ascent was released in 2023.
- How many reviews does Astral Ascent have on Steam?
- Astral Ascent has 8,469 Steam reviews, of which 95% are positive.
- Is Astral Ascent worth playing?
- Steam players rate Astral Ascent 95% positive across 8,469 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 Astral Ascent can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Action titles such as Hades, Risk of Rain (2013), The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth, Dead Cells, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Hibernian Workshop's other releases and Hibernian Workshop's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Astral Ascent 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 Astral Ascent 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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- H
Hades
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Shared tags: Action Roguelike, Rogue-lite, Hack and Slash
- R
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Shared tags: Action Roguelike, Rogue-like, Indie
- T
The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth
Action
Shared tags: Action Roguelike, Rogue-like, Indie
- D
Dead Cells
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Shared tags: Action Roguelike, Pixel Graphics, Rogue-like
- S
Skul: The Hero Slayer
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- H
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