How many copies has Dust: An Elysian Tail sold?

indielist estimates Dust: An Elysian Tail has sold between 768,204 and 1,792,476 units (median 1,280,340), derived from its 14,226 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.

Who developed Dust: An Elysian Tail?

Dust: An Elysian Tail was developed by Humble Hearts LLC and published by Xbox Game Studios.

Who published Dust: An Elysian Tail?

Dust: An Elysian Tail was published by Xbox Game Studios, developed by Humble Hearts LLC. See Xbox Game Studios's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.

When was Dust: An Elysian Tail released?

Dust: An Elysian Tail was released in 2013.

How many reviews does Dust: An Elysian Tail have on Steam?

Dust: An Elysian Tail has 14,226 Steam reviews, of which 95% are positive.

Is Dust: An Elysian Tail worth playing?

Steam players rate Dust: An Elysian Tail 95% positive across 14,226 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.

Dust: An Elysian Tail

May 24, 2013 Action $14.99

Developer Humble Hearts LLC Publisher Xbox Game Studios

Profile updated Jun 2026

Action game Dust: An Elysian Tail, developed by Humble Hearts LLC, launched in 2013. It has garnered 14,185 Steam reviews with a mixed rating. Published by Xbox Game Studios, this title offers a substantial amount of content.

Dust: An Elysian Tail is a 2013 Action game developed by Humble Hearts LLC and published by Xbox Game Studios. On Steam it has gathered 14,226 player reviews, 95% of them positive, which counts as a overwhelmingly positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on linux, mac, windows, and launched at $15. The pairing of developer Humble Hearts LLC with publisher Xbox Game Studios 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 768,000 to 1.8 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, Dust: An Elysian Tail can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.

Reviews

14,226

Positive

95%

Steam appid

236090

Engine

Unknown

Players (snapshot)

Unavailable

Sales estimate

v1.0

768K to 1.8M

units (median: 1.3M)

≈ $6.6M to $15.3M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)

768K median 1.8M

+ How is this calculated?

14,226 reviews × NB(90) = 1,280,340 median units

Factor	Adjustment
base	+50
year_2013	+30
price_$15	0
positive_95%	+10
final NB	90

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 Dust: An Elysian Tail at roughly 768,000 to 1.8 million copies, with a median around 1.3 million, derived from its 14,226 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $11.0M 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

47 observed days · window low $2.99

Across 47 observed UTC days from 2026-06-07 to 2026-07-24, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $2.99 to $14.99. The tracked-window low was $2.99 on 2026-06-07.

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Frequently asked questions

How many copies has Dust: An Elysian Tail sold?: indielist estimates Dust: An Elysian Tail has sold between 768,204 and 1,792,476 units (median 1,280,340), derived from its 14,226 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
Who developed Dust: An Elysian Tail?: Dust: An Elysian Tail was developed by Humble Hearts LLC and published by Xbox Game Studios.
Who published Dust: An Elysian Tail?: Dust: An Elysian Tail was published by Xbox Game Studios, developed by Humble Hearts LLC. See Xbox Game Studios's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
When was Dust: An Elysian Tail released?: Dust: An Elysian Tail was released in 2013.
How many reviews does Dust: An Elysian Tail have on Steam?: Dust: An Elysian Tail has 14,226 Steam reviews, of which 95% are positive.
Is Dust: An Elysian Tail worth playing?: Steam players rate Dust: An Elysian Tail 95% positive across 14,226 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 Dust: An Elysian Tail can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Action titles such as Hollow Knight, ENDER MAGNOLIA: Bloom in the Mist, Hyper Light Drifter, Touhou Luna Nights, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Humble Hearts LLC's other releases and Xbox Game Studios's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Dust: An Elysian Tail 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 Dust: An Elysian Tail 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.