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Adventure indie game Isles of Sea and Sky launched in 2024 from Cicada Games, with cicada-games listed as both developer and publisher. Its Steam profile shows 1,410 reviews marked 0% positive and mixed, with an initial price of $19.99.
Overview
Isles of Sea and Sky is a 2024 Adventure game developed by Cicada Games and published by Cicada Games. On Steam it has gathered 1,591 player reviews, 93% 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 $20. The pairing of developer Cicada Games with publisher Cicada 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 67,000 to 156,000 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, Isles of Sea and Sky can be compared against similar Adventure titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
1,591
Positive
93%
Steam appid
1233070
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.067K to 156K
units (median: 111K)
≈ $763K to $1.8M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2024 | 0 |
| price_$20 | 0 |
| positive_93% | +10 |
| genre_Adventure | +10 |
| final NB | 70 |
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 Isles of Sea and Sky at roughly 67,000 to 156,000 copies, with a median around 111,000, derived from its 1,591 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $1.3M 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 $19.99Across 8 observed UTC days from 2026-07-15 to 2026-07-22, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $19.99 to $19.99. The tracked-window low was $19.99 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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- Green Man Gaming
- Fanatical
- Humble Store
- GOG.com
Latest tracked store observations (2026-07-22 16:14 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
Genres
AdventureIndie
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Isles of Sea and Sky sold?
- indielist estimates Isles of Sea and Sky has sold between 66,822 and 155,918 units (median 111,370), derived from its 1,591 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Isles of Sea and Sky?
- Isles of Sea and Sky was developed by Cicada Games and published by Cicada Games.
- Who published Isles of Sea and Sky?
- Isles of Sea and Sky was published by Cicada Games, developed by Cicada Games. See Cicada Games's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was Isles of Sea and Sky released?
- Isles of Sea and Sky was released in 2024.
- How many reviews does Isles of Sea and Sky have on Steam?
- Isles of Sea and Sky has 1,591 Steam reviews, of which 93% are positive.
- Is Isles of Sea and Sky worth playing?
- Steam players rate Isles of Sea and Sky 93% positive across 1,591 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 Isles of Sea and Sky 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, Cicada Games's other releases and Cicada Games's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Isles of Sea and Sky 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 Isles of Sea and Sky 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.
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