Celeste
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Celeste is a 2018 precision platformer from self-published developer Maddy Makes Games. With 140,000 Steam reviews at 98% positive, it combines difficult pixel-graphics platforming with a story-rich narrative. Initial price was $19.99.
Overview
Celeste is a 2018 Action game developed by Maddy Makes Games Inc. and published by Maddy Makes Games Inc.. On Steam it has gathered 126,861 player reviews, 97% of them positive, which counts as a overwhelmingly positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on linux, mac, windows, and launched at $20. The pairing of developer Maddy Makes Games Inc. with publisher Maddy Makes Games Inc. is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Action projects reach the market. indielist's white-box model estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 5.7 million to 13.3 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, Celeste can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
126,861
Positive
97%
Steam appid
504230
Engine
n/a
Sales estimate
vv1.05.7M to 13.3M
units (median: 9.5M)
≈ $65.2M to $152.1M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for Celeste at roughly 5.7 million to 13.3 million copies, with a median around 9.5 million, derived from its 126,861 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter model (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $108.6M 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 $10.18Over the last 90 days the price ranged from $10.18 to $19.99, averaging $18.53 across 3 discount windows, with a historical low of $10.18 on 2026-04-29.
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Where to buy
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Platforms
linuxmacwindows
Tags
Precision PlatformerDifficultPixel GraphicsGreat SoundtrackIndiePlatformer2D PlatformerFemale ProtagonistSingleplayer2DStory RichAdventureCutePuzzle-PlatformerLGBTQ+AtmosphericActionSide ScrollerRetroExploration
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Celeste sold?
- indielist estimates Celeste has sold between 5,708,745 and 13,320,405 units (median 9,514,575), derived from its 126,861 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter vv1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Celeste?
- Celeste was developed by Maddy Makes Games Inc. and published by Maddy Makes Games Inc..
- When was Celeste released?
- Celeste was released in 2018.
- How many reviews does Celeste have on Steam?
- Celeste has 126,861 Steam reviews, of which 97% are positive.
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Celeste sold?
- indielist estimates Celeste has sold between 5,708,745 and 13,320,405 units (median 9,514,575), derived from its 126,861 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter vv1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Celeste?
- Celeste was developed by Maddy Makes Games Inc. and published by Maddy Makes Games Inc..
- When was Celeste released?
- Celeste was released in 2018.
- How many reviews does Celeste have on Steam?
- Celeste has 126,861 Steam reviews, of which 97% are positive.
Ecosystem
Players looking for games like Celeste can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Action titles such as Gris, Hollow Knight, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Maddy Makes Games Inc.'s other releases and Maddy Makes Games Inc.'s wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Celeste 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 Celeste page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Action 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.
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