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Adventure indie game Sailwind launched in 2021 from Raw Lion Workshop, with the developer also listed as publisher. It has 2,201 Steam reviews marked mixed and launched at an initial price of $19.99.
Overview
Sailwind is a 2021 Adventure game developed by Raw Lion Workshop and published by Raw Lion Workshop. On Steam it has gathered 2,245 player reviews, 89% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Adventure category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $20. The pairing of developer Raw Lion Workshop with publisher Raw Lion Workshop is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Adventure projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 114,000 to 267,000 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, Sailwind can be compared against similar Adventure titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
2,245
Positive
89%
Steam appid
1764530
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.0114K to 267K
units (median: 191K)
≈ $1.3M to $3.1M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2021 | +15 |
| price_$20 | 0 |
| positive_89% | +10 |
| genre_Adventure | +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 Sailwind at roughly 114,000 to 267,000 copies, with a median around 191,000, derived from its 2,245 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $2.2M 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
9 observed days · window low $19.99Across 9 observed UTC days from 2026-07-15 to 2026-07-23, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $19.99 to $19.99. The tracked-window low was $19.99 on 2026-07-15.
Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.
Where to buy
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- Green Man Gaming
- Fanatical
- Humble Store
- GOG.com
Latest tracked store observations (2026-07-23 05:52 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
windows
Genres
AdventureCasualIndieSimulationEarly Access
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Sailwind sold?
- indielist estimates Sailwind has sold between 114,495 and 267,155 units (median 190,825), derived from its 2,245 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Sailwind?
- Sailwind was developed by Raw Lion Workshop and published by Raw Lion Workshop.
- Who published Sailwind?
- Sailwind was published by Raw Lion Workshop, developed by Raw Lion Workshop. See Raw Lion Workshop's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was Sailwind released?
- Sailwind was released in 2021.
- How many reviews does Sailwind have on Steam?
- Sailwind has 2,245 Steam reviews, of which 89% are positive.
- Is Sailwind worth playing?
- Steam players rate Sailwind 89% positive across 2,245 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 Sailwind can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Adventure titles such as Subnautica, Raft, Satisfactory, Human Fall Flat, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Raw Lion Workshop's other releases and Raw Lion Workshop's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Sailwind 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 Sailwind page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Adventure 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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