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A Highland Song

Dec 5, 2023 Adventure $17.99
Developer inkle Ltd Publisher inkle Ltd
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This 2023 adventure game from inkle-ltd features a unique blend of exploration and rhythm-action. Players traverse the Scottish Highlands, with 641 Steam reviews indicating an 88% positive reception. The developer also self-published this title.

Overview

A Highland Song is a 2023 Adventure game developed by inkle Ltd and published by inkle Ltd. On Steam it has gathered 649 player reviews, 88% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Adventure category. The game is available on mac, windows, and launched at $18. The pairing of developer inkle Ltd with publisher inkle Ltd 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 model estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 27,000 to 64,000 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, A Highland Song can be compared against similar Adventure titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.

Reviews

649

Positive

88%

Steam appid

1240060

Engine

n/a

Sales estimate

vv1.0

27K to 64K

units (median: 45K)

$280K to $654K net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)

27Kmedian64K

indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for A Highland Song at roughly 27,000 to 64,000 copies, with a median around 45,000, derived from its 649 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter model (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $467K 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

90d · low $9.99

Over the last 90 days the price ranged from $9.99 to $17.99, averaging $16.64 across 2 discount windows, with a historical low of $9.99 on 2026-05-20.

$8 $14 $20 03-0903-2704-1405-0105-1906-06 2026-03-09: $17.99 2026-03-10: $17.99 2026-03-11: $17.99 2026-03-12: $17.99 2026-03-13: $17.99 2026-03-14: $17.99 2026-03-15: $17.99 2026-03-16: $17.99 2026-03-17: $17.99 2026-03-18: $17.99 2026-03-19: $17.99 2026-03-20: $17.99 2026-03-21: $17.99 2026-03-22: $17.99 2026-03-23: $17.99 2026-03-24: $17.99 2026-03-25: $17.99 2026-03-26: $17.99 2026-03-27: $17.99 2026-03-28: $17.99 2026-03-29: $17.99 2026-03-30: $17.99 2026-03-31: $17.99 2026-04-01: $17.99 2026-04-02: $17.99 2026-04-03: $17.99 2026-04-04: $17.99 2026-04-05: $17.99 2026-04-06: $17.99 2026-04-07: $17.99 2026-04-08: $17.99 2026-04-09: $17.99 2026-04-10: $17.99 2026-04-11: $17.99 2026-04-12: $17.99 2026-04-13: $17.99 2026-04-14: $17.99 2026-04-15: $17.99 2026-04-16: $17.99 2026-04-17: $17.99 2026-04-18: $17.99 2026-04-19: $17.99 2026-04-20: $17.99 2026-04-21: $17.99 2026-04-22: $17.99 2026-04-23: $17.99 2026-04-24: $17.99 2026-04-25: $17.99 2026-04-26: $17.99 2026-04-27: $17.99 2026-04-28: $17.99 2026-04-29: $17.99 2026-04-30: $17.99 2026-05-01: $17.99 2026-05-02: $17.99 2026-05-03: $17.99 2026-05-04: $17.99 2026-05-05: $17.99 2026-05-06: $17.99 2026-05-07: $17.99 2026-05-08: $17.99 2026-05-09: $17.99 2026-05-10: $17.99 2026-05-11: $17.99 2026-05-12: $17.99 2026-05-13: $17.99 2026-05-14: $17.99 2026-05-15: $11.51 2026-05-16: $11.51 2026-05-17: $11.51 2026-05-18: $17.99 2026-05-19: $17.99 2026-05-20: $9.99 (historical low) 2026-05-21: $9.99 (historical low) 2026-05-22: $9.99 (historical low) 2026-05-23: $9.99 (historical low) 2026-05-24: $9.99 (historical low) 2026-05-25: $9.99 (historical low) 2026-05-26: $9.99 (historical low) 2026-05-27: $9.99 (historical low) 2026-05-28: $9.99 (historical low) 2026-05-29: $11.96 2026-05-30: $11.96 2026-05-31: $11.96 2026-06-01: $11.96 2026-06-02: $11.96 2026-06-03: $17.99 2026-06-04: $17.99 2026-06-05: $17.99 2026-06-06: $17.99 Historical low: $9.99 on 2026-05-20

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Platforms

macwindows

Tags

Exploration2D PlatformerNatureDynamic NarrationFemale ProtagonistStory RichAtmosphericChoices MatterAdventureHand-drawnPlatformerSingleplayer2DNarrationMultiple EndingsNarrativeOpen WorldIndieRhythmMusic-Based Procedural Generation

Frequently asked questions

How many copies has A Highland Song sold?
indielist estimates A Highland Song has sold between 27,258 and 63,602 units (median 45,430), derived from its 649 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter vv1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
Who developed A Highland Song?
A Highland Song was developed by inkle Ltd and published by inkle Ltd.
When was A Highland Song released?
A Highland Song was released in 2023.
How many reviews does A Highland Song have on Steam?
A Highland Song has 649 Steam reviews, of which 88% are positive.

Frequently asked questions

How many copies has A Highland Song sold?
indielist estimates A Highland Song has sold between 27,258 and 63,602 units (median 45,430), derived from its 649 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter vv1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
Who developed A Highland Song?
A Highland Song was developed by inkle Ltd and published by inkle Ltd.
When was A Highland Song released?
A Highland Song was released in 2023.
How many reviews does A Highland Song have on Steam?
A Highland Song has 649 Steam reviews, of which 88% are positive.

Ecosystem

indielist positions A Highland Song within the Adventure segment so players can surface comparable titles by shared tags and genre rather than by storefront promotion. On the developer side, inkle Ltd's other releases and inkle Ltd's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where A Highland Song 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 A Highland Song 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.