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Strategy indie game Broken Arrow focuses on large-scale tactical warfare. Released in 2025 by developer steel-balalaika and publisher Slitherine Ltd, it has 31,118 Steam reviews with 56% positive, a mixed rating, and a $49.99 initial price.
Overview
Broken Arrow is a 2025 Strategy game developed by Steel Balalaika and published by Slitherine Ltd.. On Steam it has gathered 31,132 player reviews, 56% of them positive, which counts as a mixed reception among indie titles in the Strategy category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $50. The pairing of developer Steel Balalaika with publisher Slitherine Ltd. is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Strategy projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 841,000 to 2.0 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, Broken Arrow can be compared against similar Strategy titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
31,132
Positive
56%
Steam appid
1604270
Engine
Unknown
Sales estimate
vv1.0841K to 2.0M
units (median: 1.4M)
≈ $24.0M to $56.0M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2025 | -10 |
| price_$50 | +15 |
| positive_56% | -10 |
| final NB | 45 |
Confidence range: median × [0.6, 1.4]. Boundary protection: NB ∈ [15, 150].
Methodology & limitations
Sales estimates use a multi-factor Boxleiter method against public Steam review counts.
They are not authoritative sales data. Actual sales can deviate by
±50% in either direction. Free-to-play games, deeply discounted titles, and games
with heavy bundle distribution have larger error margins. Algorithm version
v1.0.
indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for Broken Arrow at roughly 841,000 to 2.0 million copies, with a median around 1.4 million, derived from its 31,132 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $40.0M 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 $25.71Over the last 90 days the price ranged from $25.71 to $49.99, averaging $44.43 across 3 discount windows, with a historical low of $25.71 on 2026-05-15.
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Where to buy
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Platforms
windows
Genres
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Broken Arrow sold?
- indielist estimates Broken Arrow has sold between 840,564 and 1,961,316 units (median 1,400,940), derived from its 31,132 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter vv1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Broken Arrow?
- Broken Arrow was developed by Steel Balalaika and published by Slitherine Ltd..
- When was Broken Arrow released?
- Broken Arrow was released in 2025.
- How many reviews does Broken Arrow have on Steam?
- Broken Arrow has 31,132 Steam reviews, of which 56% are positive.
Ecosystem
indielist positions Broken Arrow within the Strategy segment so players can surface comparable titles by shared tags and genre rather than by storefront promotion. On the developer side, Steel Balalaika's other releases and Slitherine Ltd.'s wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Broken Arrow 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 Broken Arrow page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Strategy 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.