Variable State

Profile updated Aug 2026

Variable State is the developer behind Last Stop, with 1 title on Steam and 323 total reviews. Variable State games on indielist are led by Adventure, placing the studio among Adventure developers tracked by catalog size, reviews, and best-known release.

Variable State is an indie game studio. indielist tracks 2 titles by Variable State, together holding 3,024 Steam reviews. Its most-reviewed game is Virginia, which holds 2,698 Steam reviews (2016). Across its catalog the studio has worked with 2 publishers, including 505 Games and Annapurna Interactive. indielist tracks releases from Variable State starting in 2016. That averages about 1,512 Steam reviews per title. This profile sits inside indielist's relationship graph of studios, publishers, and games, so players can find more titles from the same team, developers can compare portfolios and team sizes against peers, and investors can trace which publishers and genres the studio works across. Where Steam review data is available, indielist also publishes a transparent, white-box sales estimate for each of the studio's games, showing the full Boxleiter factor breakdown rather than a single black-box number, so the commercial picture behind Variable State can be audited rather than taken on trust.

Across its 2 tracked titles released between 2016 and 2021, Variable State has accumulated 3,024 Steam reviews, an average of about 1,500 per game, and its most-reviewed entries are Virginia, Last Stop. Review counts are the most reliable public proxy indielist has for an indie studio's reach, since raw sales are almost never disclosed, so this spread is a fair snapshot of how widely the studio's work has landed. Developers can read these figures as a benchmark: a studio of this output and review volume is a useful reference point when projecting where a comparable project might end up, and indielist shows the white-box sales estimate behind every one of those titles, so the comparison rests on visible Boxleiter math, factor by factor, rather than on a reputation or a single black-box number.

On the business side, Variable State has shipped with 2 publishers (505 Games and Annapurna Interactive), and indielist maps each of those relationships as an edge in its studio-to-publisher-to-game graph. That matters to two audiences in particular: an investor can trace which labels have backed this studio and how that roster has changed over time, while a developer can see which publishers are already comfortable signing work in the studio's genres before deciding where to send a pitch. This is the kind of sourcing intelligence that is slow and tedious to reconstruct from Steam store pages alone, because the storefront never exposes who introduced whom. Each linked publisher page in turn lists its full roster, deal tier, and current submission status, so the network around Variable State can be walked outward in either direction rather than read as a flat, disconnected list.