How many copies has Rivals of Aether sold?

indielist estimates Rivals of Aether has sold between 1,886,244 and 4,401,236 units (median 3,143,740), derived from its 33,092 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.

Who developed Rivals of Aether?

Rivals of Aether was developed by Aether Studios and published by Aether Studios.

Who published Rivals of Aether?

Rivals of Aether was published by Aether Studios, developed by Aether Studios. See Aether Studios's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.

When was Rivals of Aether released?

Rivals of Aether was released in 2017.

How many reviews does Rivals of Aether have on Steam?

Rivals of Aether has 33,092 Steam reviews, of which 96% are positive.

Is Rivals of Aether worth playing?

Steam players rate Rivals of Aether 96% positive across 33,092 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.

Rivals of Aether

Mar 28, 2017 Indie $29.99

Developer Aether Studios Publisher Aether Studios

Profile updated May 2026

Rivals of Aether is a platform fighter released in 2017. It has garnered 32,820 Steam reviews. The developer and publisher are currently unknown.

Rivals of Aether is a 2017 Indie game developed by Aether Studios and published by Aether Studios. On Steam it has gathered 33,092 player reviews, 96% of them positive, which counts as a overwhelmingly positive reception among indie titles in the Indie category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $30. The pairing of developer Aether Studios with publisher Aether Studios is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Indie projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 1.9 million to 4.4 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, Rivals of Aether can be compared against similar Indie titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.

Reviews

33,092

Positive

96%

Steam appid

383980

Engine

Unknown

Players (snapshot)

424

Historical snapshot · 2026-06-02 22:40 UTC

Sales estimate

v1.0

1.9M to 4.4M

units (median: 3.1M)

≈ $32.3M to $75.4M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)

1.9M median 4.4M

+ How is this calculated?

33,092 reviews × NB(95) = 3,143,740 median units

Factor	Adjustment
base	+50
year_2017	+30
price_$30	+5
positive_96%	+10
final NB	95

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 Rivals of Aether at roughly 1.9 million to 4.4 million copies, with a median around 3.1 million, derived from its 33,092 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $53.9M 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

54 observed days · window low $14.99

Across 54 observed UTC days from 2026-05-31 to 2026-07-24, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $14.99 to $29.99. The tracked-window low was $14.99 on 2026-05-31.

Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.

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Platforms

windows

Frequently asked questions

How many copies has Rivals of Aether sold?: indielist estimates Rivals of Aether has sold between 1,886,244 and 4,401,236 units (median 3,143,740), derived from its 33,092 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
Who developed Rivals of Aether?: Rivals of Aether was developed by Aether Studios and published by Aether Studios.
Who published Rivals of Aether?: Rivals of Aether was published by Aether Studios, developed by Aether Studios. See Aether Studios's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
When was Rivals of Aether released?: Rivals of Aether was released in 2017.
How many reviews does Rivals of Aether have on Steam?: Rivals of Aether has 33,092 Steam reviews, of which 96% are positive.
Is Rivals of Aether worth playing?: Steam players rate Rivals of Aether 96% positive across 33,092 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.

Players looking for games like Rivals of Aether can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Indie titles such as Nidhogg, SpeedRunners, Skullgirls 2nd Encore, Duck Game, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Aether Studios's other releases and Aether Studios's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Rivals of Aether 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 Rivals of Aether page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Indie 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.

Matched from shared Steam tags and primary genre. Review count breaks ties; it is not a personal recommendation score.