How many copies has Second Front sold?

indielist estimates Second Front has sold between 23,673 and 55,237 units (median 39,455), derived from its 607 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.

Who developed Second Front?

Second Front was developed by Hexdraw and published by MicroProse Software.

Who published Second Front?

Second Front was published by MicroProse Software, developed by Hexdraw. See MicroProse Software's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.

When was Second Front released?

Second Front was released in 2023.

How many reviews does Second Front have on Steam?

Second Front has 607 Steam reviews, of which 79% are positive.

Is Second Front worth playing?

Steam players rate Second Front 79% positive across 607 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.

Second Front

Jan 31, 2023 Indie $34.99

Developer Hexdraw Publisher MicroProse Software

Profile updated Jul 2026

Indie game Second Front comes from developer hexdraw and publisher MicroProse Software. Released in 2023 at an initial price of $34.99, it has 601 Steam reviews with a mixed 0% positive rating listed.

Second Front is a 2023 Indie game developed by Hexdraw and published by MicroProse Software. On Steam it has gathered 607 player reviews, 79% of them positive, which counts as a mostly positive reception among indie titles in the Indie category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $35. The pairing of developer Hexdraw 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 Indie projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 24,000 to 55,000 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, Second Front can be compared against similar Indie titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.

Reviews

607

Positive

79%

Steam appid

1148490

Engine

Unknown

Players (snapshot)

Unavailable

Sales estimate

v1.0

24K to 55K

units (median: 39K)

≈ $473K to $1.1M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)

24K median 55K

+ How is this calculated?

607 reviews × NB(65) = 39,455 median units

Factor	Adjustment
base	+50
year_2023	0
price_$35	+15
positive_79%	0
final NB	65

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 Second Front at roughly 24,000 to 55,000 copies, with a median around 39,000, derived from its 607 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $789K 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 $24.49

Across 8 observed UTC days from 2026-07-15 to 2026-07-22, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $24.49 to $34.99. The tracked-window low was $24.49 on 2026-07-20.

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Platforms

windows

Genres

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Frequently asked questions

How many copies has Second Front sold?: indielist estimates Second Front has sold between 23,673 and 55,237 units (median 39,455), derived from its 607 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
Who developed Second Front?: Second Front was developed by Hexdraw and published by MicroProse Software.
Who published Second Front?: Second Front was published by MicroProse Software, developed by Hexdraw. See MicroProse Software's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
When was Second Front released?: Second Front was released in 2023.
How many reviews does Second Front have on Steam?: Second Front has 607 Steam reviews, of which 79% are positive.
Is Second Front worth playing?: Steam players rate Second Front 79% positive across 607 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 Second Front can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Indie titles such as Stardew Valley, Euro Truck Simulator 2, Project Zomboid, Undertale, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Hexdraw's other releases and MicroProse Software's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Second Front 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 Second Front 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.