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MapleStory is a 2D platformer MMORPG with action gameplay and extensive character customization. Released in 2012, it has garnered 14,904 Steam reviews, averaging a mixed reception (63% positive). Published by Nexon America Inc., this free-to-play title focuses on loot and character progression.
Overview
MapleStory is a 2012 Action game developed by NEXON Korea Corporation and published by Nexon America Inc.. On Steam it has gathered 14,913 player reviews, 63% of them positive, which counts as a mixed reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on mac, windows, and is free to play. The pairing of developer NEXON Korea Corporation with publisher Nexon America 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 method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 626,000 to 1.5 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, MapleStory can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
14,913
Positive
63%
Steam appid
216150
Engine
Unknown
Sales estimate
vv1.0626K to 1.5M
units (median: 1.0M)
≈ $5.4M to $12.5M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2012 | +30 |
| price_$15 | 0 |
| positive_63% | -10 |
| final NB | 70 |
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 MapleStory at roughly 626,000 to 1.5 million copies, with a median around 1.0 million, derived from its 14,913 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $8.9M 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 $13.04Over the last 90 days the price ranged from $13.04 to $19.99, averaging $19.01 across 3 discount windows, with a historical low of $13.04 on 2026-04-21.
Synthetic series for demo. Real ITAD price history loads after Day 3 ingest.
Platforms
macwindows
Tags
MMORPG2D PlatformerCharacter CustomizationLootFree to PlaySide ScrollerPvEMultiplayerMultiple EndingsCo-opCuteAnimePlatformerPvPThird PersonMassively MultiplayerStory RichRPG2DCasual
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has MapleStory sold?
- indielist estimates MapleStory has sold between 626,346 and 1,461,474 units (median 1,043,910), derived from its 14,913 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter vv1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed MapleStory?
- MapleStory was developed by NEXON Korea Corporation and published by Nexon America Inc..
- When was MapleStory released?
- MapleStory was released in 2012.
- How many reviews does MapleStory have on Steam?
- MapleStory has 14,913 Steam reviews, of which 63% are positive.
Ecosystem
indielist positions MapleStory within the Action segment so players can surface comparable titles by shared tags and genre rather than by storefront promotion. On the developer side, NEXON Korea Corporation's other releases and Nexon America Inc.'s wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where MapleStory 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 MapleStory 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.