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Crying Suns is a 2019 indie strategy game. It has 3,106 reviews on Steam. The developer and publisher attribution are not yet imported.
Overview
Crying Suns is a 2019 Indie game developed by Alt Shift and published by Alt Shift. On Steam it has gathered 4,497 player reviews, 86% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Indie category. The game is available on mac, windows, and launched at $25. The pairing of developer Alt Shift with publisher Alt Shift 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 model estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 216,000 to 504,000 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, Crying Suns can be compared against similar Indie titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
4,497
Positive
86%
Steam appid
873940
Engine
n/a
Sales estimate
vv1.0216K to 504K
units (median: 360K)
≈ $3.1M to $7.2M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for Crying Suns at roughly 216,000 to 504,000 copies, with a median around 360,000, derived from its 4,497 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter model (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $5.1M 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 $13.87Over the last 90 days the price ranged from $13.87 to $24.99, averaging $23.00 across 2 discount windows, with a historical low of $13.87 on 2026-05-09.
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Where to buy
Affiliate disclosure- Fanatical -75%$6.20 Buy
- GOG.com -70%$7.49 Buy
- Steam reference$24.99 Buy
- Humble Store$24.99 Buy
- Green Man Gaming
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Platforms
macwindows
Tags
StrategySpaceIndiePixel GraphicsRogue-liteSci-fiPost-apocalypticReal-Time with PauseRogue-likeTacticalStory Rich2DSingleplayerProcedural GenerationPerma DeathRTSHex GridReal Time TacticsResource ManagementDark
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Crying Suns sold?
- indielist estimates Crying Suns has sold between 215,856 and 503,664 units (median 359,760), derived from its 4,497 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter vv1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Crying Suns?
- Crying Suns was developed by Alt Shift and published by Alt Shift.
- When was Crying Suns released?
- Crying Suns was released in 2019.
- How many reviews does Crying Suns have on Steam?
- Crying Suns has 4,497 Steam reviews, of which 86% are positive.
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Crying Suns sold?
- indielist estimates Crying Suns has sold between 215,856 and 503,664 units (median 359,760), derived from its 4,497 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter vv1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Crying Suns?
- Crying Suns was developed by Alt Shift and published by Alt Shift.
- When was Crying Suns released?
- Crying Suns was released in 2019.
- How many reviews does Crying Suns have on Steam?
- Crying Suns has 4,497 Steam reviews, of which 86% are positive.
Ecosystem
indielist positions Crying Suns within the Indie segment so players can surface comparable titles by shared tags and genre rather than by storefront promotion. On the developer side, Alt Shift's other releases and Alt Shift's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Crying Suns 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 Crying Suns 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.