How many copies has Children of the Sun sold?

indielist estimates Children of the Sun has sold between 70,884 and 165,396 units (median 118,140), derived from its 1,969 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.

Who developed Children of the Sun?

Children of the Sun was developed by René Rother and published by Devolver Digital.

Who published Children of the Sun?

Children of the Sun was published by Devolver Digital, developed by René Rother. See Devolver Digital's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.

When was Children of the Sun released?

Children of the Sun was released in 2024.

How many reviews does Children of the Sun have on Steam?

Children of the Sun has 1,969 Steam reviews, of which 93% are positive.

Is Children of the Sun worth playing?

Steam players rate Children of the Sun 93% positive across 1,969 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.

Children of the Sun

Apr 9, 2024 Action $14.99

Developer René Rother Publisher Devolver Digital

Profile updated Jun 2026

Action shooter indie game Children of the Sun blends Strategy, Arcade, and Real Time Tactics tags into a focused tactical shooting niche. Released in 2024 by developer ren-rother and published by Devolver Digital, it has 2,183 Steam reviews at 93% positive and launched at $14.99.

Children of the Sun is a 2024 Action game developed by René Rother and published by Devolver Digital. On Steam it has gathered 1,969 player reviews, 93% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $15. The pairing of developer René Rother with publisher Devolver Digital 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 71,000 to 165,000 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, Children of the Sun can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.

Reviews

1,969

Positive

93%

Steam appid

1309950

Engine

Unknown

Players (snapshot)

Unavailable

Sales estimate

v1.0

71K to 165K

units (median: 118K)

≈ $607K to $1.4M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)

71K median 165K

+ How is this calculated?

1,969 reviews × NB(60) = 118,140 median units

Factor	Adjustment
base	+50
year_2024	0
price_$15	0
positive_93%	+10
final NB	60

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 Children of the Sun at roughly 71,000 to 165,000 copies, with a median around 118,000, derived from its 1,969 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $1.0M 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

16 observed days · window low $8.53

Across 16 observed UTC days from 2026-06-03 to 2026-07-24, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $8.53 to $14.99. The tracked-window low was $8.53 on 2026-06-06.

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

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Platforms

windows

Frequently asked questions

How many copies has Children of the Sun sold?: indielist estimates Children of the Sun has sold between 70,884 and 165,396 units (median 118,140), derived from its 1,969 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
Who developed Children of the Sun?: Children of the Sun was developed by René Rother and published by Devolver Digital.
Who published Children of the Sun?: Children of the Sun was published by Devolver Digital, developed by René Rother. See Devolver Digital's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
When was Children of the Sun released?: Children of the Sun was released in 2024.
How many reviews does Children of the Sun have on Steam?: Children of the Sun has 1,969 Steam reviews, of which 93% are positive.
Is Children of the Sun worth playing?: Steam players rate Children of the Sun 93% positive across 1,969 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 Children of the Sun can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Action titles such as Crow Country, Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun, Partisans 1941, Buckshot Roulette, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, René Rother's other releases and Devolver Digital's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Children of the Sun 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 Children of the Sun 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.

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