Houdini Indie overview

Overview

Houdini Indie comes from SideFX and is published by SideFX. It arrived on Steam on Oct 10, 2018, and it sits naturally among Partial Controller Support and Steam Cloud. SteamPulse tracks it across Windows, macOS, and Steam so readers get a quick useful snapshot, not just a wall of numbers.

Players and reviews

Houdini Indie's latest SteamPulse observation recorded 46 players at 3 October 2026 - 16:33:38 UTC, with a tracked peak near 97. This peak is the highest value in the available SteamPulse record and may not include activity before tracking began. Player reaction is 92% positive across 271 reviews.

Language and system requirements

Houdini Indie is available in 1 languages including:

3 regional rating boards including dejus, steam germany, and igrs

Sales, recommendations, and streams

Houdini Indie has sold up to 3,284 units and has 250 Steam recommendations. The estimated VGI revenue is $267,000. On Twitch, 0 streamers are live with around 0 total watchers.

Houdini Indie overview details

Houdini Indie combines live player counts with reviews, pricing, platform support, Store metadata, dated player history, media, recent news, and related games.

Steam Store description

As an indie game dev you are faced with the challenge of building bigger and richer worlds with smaller teams and limited resources. Houdini Indie’s procedural workflow can help you keep up as you automate repetitive tasks, making it easier to quickly generate larger amounts of high quality content. PROCEDURAL WORKFLOW Houdini Indie provides you with a procedural pipeline-in-a-box where all the steps needed to set up a model or game level are represented by networks of nodes. These nodes can be maintained deep into production, making last minute creative decisions easy. SHAREABLE ASSETS Networks can be wrapped up into Digital Assets which can be loaded into the Unity® or Unreal Engine® game engines using the Houdini Engine plug-ins. There is also Houdini Engine plug-ins for Autodesk® Maya® and Autodesk® 3ds Max.® Your Houdini Indie license will let you work with these plug-ins on your computer while your teammates use the free Houdini Engine Indie to load Houdini Digital Assets into host applications. SIDEFX LABS TOOLS Houdini Indie gives you access to SideFX Labs, a collection of shelf tools and assets designed to speed up game dev workflows. Developed by expert Technical Artists at SideFX, these tools range from managing LOD creation, UV mapping, and texture baking to generating vertex animation textures for a wide range of FX. MODELING Whether you are modeling by hand or working procedurally, Houdini Indie helps you create large models faster than ever before. The modeling tools in Houdini Indie make it easier to create good surface topology for use in games and…

SteamPulse editorial summary

Houdini Indie is listed as a game with $299.00. It supports Windows and macOS, belongs to Partial Controller Support and Steam Cloud, and is associated with Animation & Modeling, Design & Illustration, Video Production, and Game Development. SteamPulse's latest observation records 46 players at 3 October 2026 - 16:33:38 UTC, a tracked peak of 97, and 92% positive reviews.

Overview tags

Animation & ModelingGame Development3DDesign & IllustrationIndieVideo ProductionProcedural GenerationPsychological Horror

Support and legal notes

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