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This action rogue-lite features co-op multiplayer and pixel graphics. Released in 2018, Heroes of Hammerwatch has garnered 9,473 Steam reviews with an 87% positive rating. It was published by Team17.
Overview
Heroes of Hammerwatch is a 2018 Action game developed by Crackshell and published by Team17. On Steam it has gathered 9,474 player reviews, 87% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on linux, windows, and launched at $15. The pairing of developer Crackshell with publisher Team17 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 426,000 to 995,000 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, Heroes of Hammerwatch can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
9,474
Positive
87%
Steam appid
677120
Engine
Unknown
Sales estimate
vv1.0426K to 995K
units (median: 711K)
≈ $3.7M to $8.5M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2018 | +15 |
| price_$15 | 0 |
| positive_87% | +10 |
| final NB | 75 |
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 Heroes of Hammerwatch at roughly 426,000 to 995,000 copies, with a median around 711,000, derived from its 9,474 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $6.1M 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 $7.72Over the last 90 days the price ranged from $7.72 to $14.99, averaging $14.08 across 2 discount windows, with a historical low of $7.72 on 2026-04-12.
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Where to buy
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- Humble Store$11.99 Buy
- GOG.com$11.99 Buy
- Fanatical -10%$12.28 Buy
- Green Man Gaming
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Platforms
linuxwindows
Tags
Rogue-liteAction RoguelikeCo-opPixel GraphicsMultiplayerDungeon CrawlerRPGOnline Co-OpIndieActionAdventure2DHack and SlashProcedural GenerationTop-DownRogue-likeBullet HellSingleplayerAction RPGFantasy
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Heroes of Hammerwatch sold?
- indielist estimates Heroes of Hammerwatch has sold between 426,330 and 994,770 units (median 710,550), derived from its 9,474 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter vv1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Heroes of Hammerwatch?
- Heroes of Hammerwatch was developed by Crackshell and published by Team17.
- When was Heroes of Hammerwatch released?
- Heroes of Hammerwatch was released in 2018.
- How many reviews does Heroes of Hammerwatch have on Steam?
- Heroes of Hammerwatch has 9,474 Steam reviews, of which 87% are positive.
Ecosystem
indielist positions Heroes of Hammerwatch within the Action segment so players can surface comparable titles by shared tags and genre rather than by storefront promotion. On the developer side, Crackshell's other releases and Team17's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Heroes of Hammerwatch 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 Heroes of Hammerwatch 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.