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Action indie game Akane comes from Ludic Studios, with the developer also listed as publisher. It released in 2018 at an initial price of $4.99, and Steam shows 2,717 reviews with a mixed rating and 0% positive noted in the supplied data.
Overview
Akane is a 2018 Action game developed by Ludic Studios and published by Ludic Studios. On Steam it has gathered 2,727 player reviews, 95% of them positive, which counts as a overwhelmingly positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on linux, mac, windows, and launched at $5. The pairing of developer Ludic Studios with publisher Ludic Studios 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 90,000 to 210,000 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, Akane can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
2,727
Positive
95%
Steam appid
884260
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.090K to 210K
units (median: 150K)
≈ $257K to $599K modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2018 | +15 |
| price_$5 | -20 |
| positive_95% | +10 |
| final NB | 55 |
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 Akane at roughly 90,000 to 210,000 copies, with a median around 150,000, derived from its 2,727 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $428K 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
8 observed days · window low $3.99Across 8 observed UTC days from 2026-07-15 to 2026-07-22, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $3.99 to $3.99. The tracked-window low was $3.99 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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Platforms
linuxmacwindows
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Akane sold?
- indielist estimates Akane has sold between 89,991 and 209,979 units (median 149,985), derived from its 2,727 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Akane?
- Akane was developed by Ludic Studios and published by Ludic Studios.
- Who published Akane?
- Akane was published by Ludic Studios, developed by Ludic Studios. See Ludic Studios's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was Akane released?
- Akane was released in 2018.
- How many reviews does Akane have on Steam?
- Akane has 2,727 Steam reviews, of which 95% are positive.
- Is Akane worth playing?
- Steam players rate Akane 95% positive across 2,727 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 Akane 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, Ludic Studios's other releases and Ludic Studios's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Akane 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 Akane 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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