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Action indie game Distant Space offers a budget entry point at $0.99. Released in 2016 by pixelmouse, which also publishes it, the game has 3,396 Steam reviews with 82% positive, giving it a mostly positive reception.
Overview
Distant Space is a 2016 Action game developed by PixelMouse and published by PixelMouse. On Steam it has gathered 3,409 player reviews, 82% of them positive, which counts as a mostly positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $1. The pairing of developer PixelMouse with publisher PixelMouse 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 123,000 to 286,000 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, Distant Space can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
3,409
Positive
82%
Steam appid
569610
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.0123K to 286K
units (median: 205K)
≈ $69K to $162K modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2016 | +30 |
| price_$1 | -20 |
| positive_82% | 0 |
| final NB | 60 |
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 Distant Space at roughly 123,000 to 286,000 copies, with a median around 205,000, derived from its 3,409 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $116K 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
3 observed days · window low $0.49Across 3 observed UTC days from 2026-07-20 to 2026-07-22, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $0.49 to $0.49. The tracked-window low was $0.49 on 2026-07-20.
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 (2026-07-22 13:38 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
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Distant Space sold?
- indielist estimates Distant Space has sold between 122,724 and 286,356 units (median 204,540), derived from its 3,409 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Distant Space?
- Distant Space was developed by PixelMouse and published by PixelMouse.
- Who published Distant Space?
- Distant Space was published by PixelMouse, developed by PixelMouse. See PixelMouse's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was Distant Space released?
- Distant Space was released in 2016.
- How many reviews does Distant Space have on Steam?
- Distant Space has 3,409 Steam reviews, of which 82% are positive.
- Is Distant Space worth playing?
- Steam players rate Distant Space 82% positive across 3,409 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 Distant Space can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Action titles such as Terraria, Rust, Phasmophobia, ARK: Survival Evolved, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, PixelMouse's other releases and PixelMouse's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Distant Space 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 Distant Space 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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