How many copies has Tales of the Neon Sea sold?

indielist estimates Tales of the Neon Sea has sold between 255,459 and 596,071 units (median 425,765), derived from its 5,009 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.

Who developed Tales of the Neon Sea?

Tales of the Neon Sea was developed by YiTi Games and published by Thermite Games.

Who published Tales of the Neon Sea?

Tales of the Neon Sea was published by Thermite Games, developed by YiTi Games. See Thermite Games's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.

When was Tales of the Neon Sea released?

Tales of the Neon Sea was released in 2019.

How many reviews does Tales of the Neon Sea have on Steam?

Tales of the Neon Sea has 5,009 Steam reviews, of which 85% are positive.

Is Tales of the Neon Sea worth playing?

Steam players rate Tales of the Neon Sea 85% positive across 5,009 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.

Tales of the Neon Sea

Apr 29, 2019 Adventure $16.99

Developer YiTi Games Publisher Thermite Games

Profile updated Jun 2026

Adventure indie game Tales of the Neon Sea launched in 2019 from developer Yiti Games, with Thermite Games as publisher. It has 3,717 Steam reviews marked mixed at 0% positive, and an initial price of $16.99.

Tales of the Neon Sea is a 2019 Adventure game developed by YiTi Games and published by Thermite Games. On Steam it has gathered 5,009 player reviews, 85% 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 $17. The pairing of developer YiTi Games with publisher Thermite Games 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 255,000 to 596,000 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, Tales of the Neon Sea can be compared against similar Adventure titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.

Reviews

5,009

Positive

85%

Steam appid

828740

Engine

Unknown

Players (snapshot)

Unavailable

Sales estimate

v1.0

255K to 596K

units (median: 426K)

≈ $2.5M to $5.8M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)

255K median 596K

+ How is this calculated?

5,009 reviews × NB(85) = 425,765 median units

Factor	Adjustment
base	+50
year_2019	+15
price_$17	0
positive_85%	+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 Tales of the Neon Sea at roughly 255,000 to 596,000 copies, with a median around 426,000, derived from its 5,009 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $4.1M 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 $2.39

Across 9 observed UTC days from 2026-07-15 to 2026-07-23, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $2.39 to $16.99. The tracked-window low was $2.39 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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Steam reference

$16.99 Buy
Humble Store

$16.99 Buy
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Platforms

windows

Genres

AdventureIndie

Frequently asked questions

How many copies has Tales of the Neon Sea sold?: indielist estimates Tales of the Neon Sea has sold between 255,459 and 596,071 units (median 425,765), derived from its 5,009 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
Who developed Tales of the Neon Sea?: Tales of the Neon Sea was developed by YiTi Games and published by Thermite Games.
Who published Tales of the Neon Sea?: Tales of the Neon Sea was published by Thermite Games, developed by YiTi Games. See Thermite Games's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
When was Tales of the Neon Sea released?: Tales of the Neon Sea was released in 2019.
How many reviews does Tales of the Neon Sea have on Steam?: Tales of the Neon Sea has 5,009 Steam reviews, of which 85% are positive.
Is Tales of the Neon Sea worth playing?: Steam players rate Tales of the Neon Sea 85% positive across 5,009 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 Tales of the Neon Sea 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, YiTi Games's other releases and Thermite Games's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Tales of the Neon Sea 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 Tales of the Neon Sea 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.

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