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Action simulation Ground Branch, released in 2018, has garnered 20,861 Steam reviews. This indie title emphasizes tactical gameplay. The developer is unknown, and publisher attribution is not yet imported.
Overview
GROUND BRANCH is a 2026 Action game developed by BlackFoot Studios and published by MicroProse Software. On Steam it has gathered 21,801 player reviews, 86% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $30. The pairing of developer BlackFoot Studios with publisher MicroProse Software 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 719,000 to 1.7 million 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, GROUND BRANCH can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
21,801
Positive
86%
Steam appid
16900
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
232
Historical snapshot ·
Sales estimate
v1.0719K to 1.7M
units (median: 1.2M)
≈ $12.3M to $28.8M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2026 | -10 |
| price_$30 | +5 |
| positive_86% | +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 GROUND BRANCH at roughly 719,000 to 1.7 million copies, with a median around 1.2 million, derived from its 21,801 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $20.5M 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
53 observed days · window low $23.99Across 53 observed UTC days from 2026-05-31 to 2026-07-22, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $23.99 to $29.99. The tracked-window low was $23.99 on 2026-07-17.
Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.
Where to buy
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- GOG.com
Latest tracked store observations (2026-07-22 19:35 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
Tags
TacticalRealisticMilitaryFPSShooterMultiplayerSingleplayerSimulationActionCo-opFirst-PersonGun CustomizationWarOnline Co-OpEarly AccessIndieStrategyTeam-BasedSandboxAtmospheric
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has GROUND BRANCH sold?
- indielist estimates GROUND BRANCH has sold between 719,433 and 1,678,677 units (median 1,199,055), derived from its 21,801 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed GROUND BRANCH?
- GROUND BRANCH was developed by BlackFoot Studios and published by MicroProse Software.
- Who published GROUND BRANCH?
- GROUND BRANCH was published by MicroProse Software, developed by BlackFoot Studios. See MicroProse Software's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was GROUND BRANCH released?
- GROUND BRANCH was released in 2026.
- How many reviews does GROUND BRANCH have on Steam?
- GROUND BRANCH has 21,801 Steam reviews, of which 86% are positive.
- Is GROUND BRANCH worth playing?
- Steam players rate GROUND BRANCH 86% positive across 21,801 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 GROUND BRANCH can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Action titles such as Ravenfield, Call to Arms, Isonzo, War of Rights, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, BlackFoot Studios's other releases and MicroProse Software's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where GROUND BRANCH 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 GROUND BRANCH 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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- W
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