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Action-focused vertical platforming defines Downwell, a 2015 release from developer moppin. It has 8,527 Steam reviews with a 97% positive rating, marked overwhelmingly positive, and was published by Devolver Digital at an initial price of $2.99.
Overview
Downwell is a 2015 Action game developed by Moppin and published by Devolver Digital. On Steam it has gathered 8,531 player reviews, 97% of them positive, which counts as a overwhelmingly positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $3. The pairing of developer Moppin with publisher Devolver Digital 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 358,000 to 836,000 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, Downwell can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
8,531
Positive
97%
Steam appid
360740
Engine
Unknown
Sales estimate
vv1.0358K to 836K
units (median: 597K)
≈ $612K to $1.4M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2015 | +30 |
| price_$3 | -20 |
| positive_97% | +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 Downwell at roughly 358,000 to 836,000 copies, with a median around 597,000, derived from its 8,531 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $1.0M 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 $1.53Over the last 90 days the price ranged from $1.53 to $2.99, averaging $2.78 across 3 discount windows, with a historical low of $1.53 on 2026-04-12.
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Where to buy
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Platforms
windows
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Downwell sold?
- indielist estimates Downwell has sold between 358,302 and 836,038 units (median 597,170), derived from its 8,531 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter vv1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Downwell?
- Downwell was developed by Moppin and published by Devolver Digital.
- When was Downwell released?
- Downwell was released in 2015.
- How many reviews does Downwell have on Steam?
- Downwell has 8,531 Steam reviews, of which 97% are positive.
Ecosystem
indielist positions Downwell within the Action segment so players can surface comparable titles by shared tags and genre rather than by storefront promotion. On the developer side, Moppin's other releases and Devolver Digital's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Downwell 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 Downwell 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.