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This creature-collecting Metroidvania combines turn-based combat with action-platforming. Released in 2020, it boasts over 12,400 Steam reviews with a 91% positive rating. Published by Team17, it offers a deep singleplayer experience.
Overview
Monster Sanctuary is a 2020 Action game developed by moi rai games and published by Team17. On Steam it has gathered 12,472 player reviews, 91% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on linux, mac, windows, and launched at $20. The pairing of developer moi rai games 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 561,000 to 1.3 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, Monster Sanctuary can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
12,472
Positive
91%
Steam appid
814370
Engine
Unknown
Sales estimate
vv1.0561K to 1.3M
units (median: 935K)
≈ $6.4M to $15.0M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2020 | +15 |
| price_$20 | 0 |
| positive_91% | +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 Monster Sanctuary at roughly 561,000 to 1.3 million copies, with a median around 935,000, derived from its 12,472 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $10.7M 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 $10.73Over the last 90 days the price ranged from $10.73 to $19.99, averaging $17.88 across 3 discount windows, with a historical low of $10.73 on 2026-05-03.
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Where to buy
Affiliate disclosure- Steam reference -75%$4.99 Buy
- Humble Store$19.99 Buy
- Fanatical -10%$20.82 Buy
- Green Man Gaming
- GOG.com
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Platforms
linuxmacwindows
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Monster Sanctuary sold?
- indielist estimates Monster Sanctuary has sold between 561,240 and 1,309,560 units (median 935,400), derived from its 12,472 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter vv1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Monster Sanctuary?
- Monster Sanctuary was developed by moi rai games and published by Team17.
- When was Monster Sanctuary released?
- Monster Sanctuary was released in 2020.
- How many reviews does Monster Sanctuary have on Steam?
- Monster Sanctuary has 12,472 Steam reviews, of which 91% are positive.
Ecosystem
indielist positions Monster Sanctuary within the Action segment so players can surface comparable titles by shared tags and genre rather than by storefront promotion. On the developer side, moi rai games's other releases and Team17's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Monster Sanctuary 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 Monster Sanctuary 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.