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Skul: The Hero Slayer is an action game released in 2021. It has garnered 50,367 reviews on Steam. The developer and publisher attribution are not yet imported.
Overview
Skul: The Hero Slayer is a 2021 Action game developed by SOUTHPAW GAMES and published by NEOWIZ. On Steam it has gathered 50,432 player reviews, 93% 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 SOUTHPAW GAMES with publisher NEOWIZ 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 2.3 million to 5.3 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, Skul: The Hero Slayer can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
50,432
Positive
93%
Steam appid
1147560
Engine
n/a
Sales estimate
vv1.02.3M to 5.3M
units (median: 3.8M)
≈ $25.9M to $60.5M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for Skul: The Hero Slayer at roughly 2.3 million to 5.3 million copies, with a median around 3.8 million, derived from its 50,432 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter model (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $43.2M 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 $10.05Over the last 90 days the price ranged from $10.05 to $19.99, averaging $18.49 across 3 discount windows, with a historical low of $10.05 on 2026-04-21.
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- GOG.com
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Platforms
linuxmacwindows
Tags
IndieActionAction RoguelikePixel Graphics2DRogue-likeRogue-liteSingleplayerPlatformerMetroidvaniaDifficultSide ScrollerHack and SlashAdventureVillain ProtagonistAction-AdventureFantasyStory RichMultiplayerCute
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Skul: The Hero Slayer sold?
- indielist estimates Skul: The Hero Slayer has sold between 2,269,440 and 5,295,360 units (median 3,782,400), derived from its 50,432 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter vv1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Skul: The Hero Slayer?
- Skul: The Hero Slayer was developed by SOUTHPAW GAMES and published by NEOWIZ.
- When was Skul: The Hero Slayer released?
- Skul: The Hero Slayer was released in 2021.
- How many reviews does Skul: The Hero Slayer have on Steam?
- Skul: The Hero Slayer has 50,432 Steam reviews, of which 93% are positive.
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Skul: The Hero Slayer sold?
- indielist estimates Skul: The Hero Slayer has sold between 2,269,440 and 5,295,360 units (median 3,782,400), derived from its 50,432 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter vv1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Skul: The Hero Slayer?
- Skul: The Hero Slayer was developed by SOUTHPAW GAMES and published by NEOWIZ.
- When was Skul: The Hero Slayer released?
- Skul: The Hero Slayer was released in 2021.
- How many reviews does Skul: The Hero Slayer have on Steam?
- Skul: The Hero Slayer has 50,432 Steam reviews, of which 93% are positive.
Ecosystem
indielist positions Skul: The Hero Slayer within the Action segment so players can surface comparable titles by shared tags and genre rather than by storefront promotion. On the developer side, SOUTHPAW GAMES's other releases and NEOWIZ's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Skul: The Hero Slayer 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 Skul: The Hero Slayer 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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