IXION

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IXION

Short description

IXION is an unrelenting, city-building odyssey across the stars. As Administrator of the Tiqqun, DOLOS’ prototype space station, you are tasked with balancing preservation and exploration as you manage infrastructure, resources and crew. Can you keep the flame of humanity alight in the cold dark?

Developer
Bulwark Studios
Publisher
Kasedo Games
Release
Wed, Dec 07, 2022
Price
$34.99
Reviews
15,409
Positive
78%
Followers
107,596
Owners (estimated)
1M – 2M
Concurrent players
133
Genres
Indie, Simulation, Strategy
Tags
Space City Builder Strategy Survival Resource Management Colony Sim Base-Building Building Simulation Exploration Choices Matter Atmospheric Economy Singleplayer Dark Management RTS Post-apocalyptic Difficult Indie
Revenue (estimated, gross)~$35msomewhere between $35m and $43.1m · roughly 1M–1.2M copies

Review count and SteamSpy's owner range agree well enough to narrow the estimate down to this band. Multiplied by the $34.99 launch price — there is not enough price history for this game to weight the copies by what they actually sold for. Before Steam's cut, VAT and refunds. How these numbers are calculated.

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History

80 data points since Jul 30, 2026. Gaps mean nothing changed — the value carries forward.

Revenue (est.) ~$34.1m → ~$35m
Reviews 15,014 → 15,409
Followers 106,677 → 107,596
Concurrent players 133 → 133
Price $34.99 → $34.99
Positive reviews 77.8% → 77.9%

The revenue curve is an estimate, not a measurement. It is the only calculated series here: each interval takes the review growth of that period, multiplies it by the sales-per-review factor and by the price actually charged at the time, and adds the result to the running total. That is why it climbs more slowly through discount periods than the review curve next to it. The last point is the same figure quoted above — gross, before Steam's cut, VAT and refunds. How these numbers are calculated.

The blurred area is the rest of the history. 94 further data points reach back to Dec 1, 2022 — your plan shows the last 90 days of it. How far each series in particular reaches is written on its own chart; not every one of them goes back that far. The shape in the blurred area is decoration, not data: the figures are not in this page at all. Plus unlocks the complete series.

Lowest recorded price: $10.49 on Aug 29, 2026.

How crowded is this niche?

How full the niche around IXION is — measured on the tags it leads with, against every other combination on Steam.

±?? Space + City Builder + Strategy

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Similar games that found an audience

Games sharing at least 3 of this title's leading tags, with enough reviews to have gone somewhere. Ranked by how much they overlap, not by how big they are. − missing and + extra mark the tags each one does not share with IXION. Studio counts the titles that developer has released — the closest thing to production scale that public data allows. It is not a budget, and nobody publishes those.

Image Name Studio Shared Tag difference Price Reviews Positive Released Revenue (estimated)
Surviving Mars Surviving Mars Haemimont Games 16 titles +1 5 − Resource Management + Base-Building $29.99 17,453 79% Thu, Mar 15, 2018 $23.6m
$10.5m – $150m
Planetbase Planetbase Madruga Works 4 titles 5 − Resource Management + Base-Building $14.99
$7.49
50%
9,588 80% Thu, Oct 15, 2015 $6.5m
$2.9m – $30m
Frostpunk Frostpunk 11 bit studios 22 titles 4 − Space − Colony Sim + Post-apocalyptic + Steampunk $29.99 114,936 93% Tue, Apr 24, 2018 $150m
$68.9m – $150m
Banished Banished Shining Rock Software LLC first game 4 − Space − Resource Management + Simulation + Indie $19.99 37,931 90% Tue, Feb 18, 2014 $40m
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Frostpunk 2 Frostpunk 2 11 bit studios 22 titles 4 − Space − Colony Sim + Post-apocalyptic + Simulation $44.99 21,048 74% Fri, Sep 20, 2024 $42.6m
$22.5m – $45m

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