Crypt of the NecroDancer
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Crypt of the NecroDancer is an action roguelike released in 2015. It has received 23,404 Steam reviews. The developer and publisher are currently unknown.
Overview
Crypt of the NecroDancer is a 2015 Action game developed by Brace Yourself Games and published by Brace Yourself Games. On Steam it has gathered 23,431 player reviews, 96% 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 $15. The pairing of developer Brace Yourself Games with publisher Brace Yourself Games 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 1.3 million to 3.0 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, Crypt of the NecroDancer can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
23,431
Positive
96%
Steam appid
247080
Engine
n/a
Sales estimate
vv1.01.3M to 3.0M
units (median: 2.1M)
≈ $10.8M to $25.3M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for Crypt of the NecroDancer at roughly 1.3 million to 3.0 million copies, with a median around 2.1 million, derived from its 23,431 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter model (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $18.1M 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 $8.04Over the last 90 days the price ranged from $8.04 to $14.99, averaging $13.81 across 3 discount windows, with a historical low of $8.04 on 2026-05-03.
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Where to buy
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Platforms
linuxmacwindows
Tags
RhythmFemale ProtagonistDifficultRogue-likeGreat SoundtrackPixel GraphicsDungeon CrawlerIndieMusicLocal Co-OpRPG2DActionRogue-liteProcedural GenerationSingleplayerCo-opFantasyAdventureRetro
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Crypt of the NecroDancer sold?
- indielist estimates Crypt of the NecroDancer has sold between 1,265,274 and 2,952,306 units (median 2,108,790), derived from its 23,431 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter vv1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Crypt of the NecroDancer?
- Crypt of the NecroDancer was developed by Brace Yourself Games and published by Brace Yourself Games.
- When was Crypt of the NecroDancer released?
- Crypt of the NecroDancer was released in 2015.
- How many reviews does Crypt of the NecroDancer have on Steam?
- Crypt of the NecroDancer has 23,431 Steam reviews, of which 96% are positive.
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Crypt of the NecroDancer sold?
- indielist estimates Crypt of the NecroDancer has sold between 1,265,274 and 2,952,306 units (median 2,108,790), derived from its 23,431 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter vv1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Crypt of the NecroDancer?
- Crypt of the NecroDancer was developed by Brace Yourself Games and published by Brace Yourself Games.
- When was Crypt of the NecroDancer released?
- Crypt of the NecroDancer was released in 2015.
- How many reviews does Crypt of the NecroDancer have on Steam?
- Crypt of the NecroDancer has 23,431 Steam reviews, of which 96% are positive.
Ecosystem
indielist positions Crypt of the NecroDancer within the Action segment so players can surface comparable titles by shared tags and genre rather than by storefront promotion. On the developer side, Brace Yourself Games's other releases and Brace Yourself Games's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Crypt of the NecroDancer 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 Crypt of the NecroDancer 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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