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Foundation is a simulation and strategy game set for release in 2025. It has garnered 22,511 Steam reviews, indicating significant player interest prior to its launch. The developer and publisher attribution are not yet imported.
Overview
Foundation is a 2025 Indie game developed by Polymorph Games and published by Polymorph Games. On Steam it has gathered 22,753 player reviews, 87% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Indie category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $35. The pairing of developer Polymorph Games with publisher Polymorph Games is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Indie projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 887,000 to 2.1 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, Foundation can be compared against similar Indie titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
22,753
Positive
87%
Steam appid
690830
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
1,150
Historical snapshot ·
Sales estimate
v1.0887K to 2.1M
units (median: 1.5M)
≈ $17.7M to $41.4M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2025 | -10 |
| price_$35 | +15 |
| positive_87% | +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 Foundation at roughly 887,000 to 2.1 million copies, with a median around 1.5 million, derived from its 22,753 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $29.6M 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
53 observed days · window low $23.44Across 53 observed UTC days from 2026-05-31 to 2026-07-22, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $23.44 to $34.99. The tracked-window low was $23.44 on 2026-05-31.
Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.
Where to buy
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Platforms
windows
Tags
City BuilderSimulationMedievalStrategySandboxResource ManagementManagementRelaxingAtmosphericEconomyBuildingIndieSingleplayerBase-BuildingColony SimOpen WorldSurvivalRTSChoices MatterEarly Access
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Foundation sold?
- indielist estimates Foundation has sold between 887,367 and 2,070,523 units (median 1,478,945), derived from its 22,753 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Foundation?
- Foundation was developed by Polymorph Games and published by Polymorph Games.
- Who published Foundation?
- Foundation was published by Polymorph Games, developed by Polymorph Games. See Polymorph Games's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was Foundation released?
- Foundation was released in 2025.
- How many reviews does Foundation have on Steam?
- Foundation has 22,753 Steam reviews, of which 87% are positive.
- Is Foundation worth playing?
- Steam players rate Foundation 87% positive across 22,753 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 Foundation can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Indie titles such as Banished, IXION, Planetbase, Endzone - A World Apart, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Polymorph Games's other releases and Polymorph Games's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Foundation 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 Foundation page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Indie 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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