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Action-focused gameplay defines Magicite, a 2014 release from developer sean-young and publisher smashgames. It has 7,581 Steam reviews with 85% positive sentiment, rated Very Positive, and launched with an initial price of $9.99.
Overview
Magicite is a 2014 Action game developed by Sean Young and published by SmashGames. On Steam it has gathered 7,590 player reviews, 85% 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 $10. The pairing of developer Sean Young with publisher SmashGames 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 387,000 to 903,000 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, Magicite can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
7,590
Positive
85%
Steam appid
268750
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.0387K to 903K
units (median: 645K)
≈ $2.2M to $5.2M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2014 | +30 |
| price_$10 | -5 |
| positive_85% | +10 |
| final NB | 85 |
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 Magicite at roughly 387,000 to 903,000 copies, with a median around 645,000, derived from its 7,590 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $3.7M 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
44 observed days · window low $4.99Across 44 observed UTC days from 2026-06-09 to 2026-07-22, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $4.99 to $9.99. The tracked-window low was $4.99 on 2026-06-26.
Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.
Where to buy
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- GOG.com
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Platforms
linuxmacwindows
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Magicite sold?
- indielist estimates Magicite has sold between 387,090 and 903,210 units (median 645,150), derived from its 7,590 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Magicite?
- Magicite was developed by Sean Young and published by SmashGames.
- Who published Magicite?
- Magicite was published by SmashGames, developed by Sean Young. See SmashGames's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was Magicite released?
- Magicite was released in 2014.
- How many reviews does Magicite have on Steam?
- Magicite has 7,590 Steam reviews, of which 85% are positive.
- Is Magicite worth playing?
- Steam players rate Magicite 85% positive across 7,590 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 Magicite can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Action titles such as Rust, Terraria, Phasmophobia, ARK: Survival Evolved, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Sean Young's other releases and SmashGames's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Magicite 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 Magicite 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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