Indie game intelligence
The indie game graph.
Studios, publishers, games and funding, connected. With white-box sales estimates you can open and check, line by line.
Other tools hand you a black-box number. We show you the formula — and who’s connected to whom.
- Studios
- 4,390
- Publishers
- 3,113
- Published games
- 2,165
- Tracked total
- 7,594
Published games are public and indexable; 5,429 tracked drafts are held by the quality gate before release.
How indielist differs
Most tools give you a single black-box number for one game. indielist is built on three things they don’t do.
A formula, not a black box
Tools like Gamalytic or SteamSpy hand you one number. Every estimate here expands into the Boxleiter formula behind it — year, price, studio-size and review adjustments shown openly, free to read.
Connections, not single points
Studios link to the publishers that shipped them, the games they made, and the funding behind them. That graph gives you relationship context you can follow and verify, not just one isolated number.
One graph, three jobs
Players discover by real sales signal, developers short-list publishers before pitching, and investors size a studio with an auditable estimate — from the same connected data.
One graph, three ways in
Developers
Short-list publishers that actually accept your genre before you pitch — by their real portfolio, signings and submission status.
Publisher directoryPlayers
Find your next game by genre, sentiment and real sales signal, not a paid-placement list.
Browse by genreInvestors
Size a studio with a sales estimate whose every adjustment you can open and check.
Read the methodSales estimates you can audit
Other tools hand you a single black-box number. Every estimate here expands the full formula, so you can see exactly how it was built and disagree with any step.
Worked example (Stardew Valley, illustrative)
- Reviews
- 1,002,252
- Boxleiter multiplier
- × 32
- Year adjustment
- × 0.94
- Price adjustment
- × 1.05
- Studio-size adjustment
- × 0.98
- Median estimate
- ≈ 31.0M
Follow the money and the people, not just the titles
Studios link to the publishers that shipped them and the games they made, so you can trace how a team, label, and release history fit together.
About indielist
indielist is an indie game intelligence directory that maps the relationships between studios, publishers, games and funding into a single graph. It publicly indexes 2,100+ Steam titles from 7,500+ tracked records, 4,350+ studios and 3,100+ publishers, each connected so you can trace who made a game, who published it, and how it performed. Its defining feature is a white-box sales estimate: every figure expands into the Boxleiter-based formula behind it, with each adjustment for release year, price, studio size and review count shown openly, rather than a black-box number. The directory serves three audiences at once: players discovering games by genre and real sales signal, developers short-listing the right publisher before pitching, and investors sizing a studio with an auditable estimate. Game facts come from public Steam data; sales figures are estimates, not official, and are labeled as such.