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An action-adventure RPG released in 2011, The Binding of Isaac offers roguelike dungeon crawling. It has garnered over 48,628 Steam reviews.
Overview
The Binding of Isaac is a 2011 Action game developed by Edmund McMillen and published by Edmund McMillen. On Steam it has gathered 48,709 player reviews, 95% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on mac, windows, and launched at $5. The pairing of developer Edmund McMillen with publisher Edmund McMillen 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 2.0 million to 4.8 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, The Binding of Isaac can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
48,709
Positive
95%
Steam appid
113200
Engine
n/a
Sales estimate
vv1.02.0M to 4.8M
units (median: 3.4M)
≈ $5.8M to $13.6M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for The Binding of Isaac at roughly 2.0 million to 4.8 million copies, with a median around 3.4 million, derived from its 48,709 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter model (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $9.7M 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 $2.61Over the last 90 days the price ranged from $2.61 to $4.99, averaging $4.61 across 3 discount windows, with a historical low of $2.61 on 2026-05-08.
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Where to buy
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Platforms
macwindows
Tags
Action RoguelikeRogue-likeIndieReplay ValueDifficultProcedural GenerationDarkActionTop-DownGreat SoundtrackAddictiveSingleplayerAdventureRogue-lite2DDungeon CrawlerSurvivalRPGPerma DeathBullet Hell
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has The Binding of Isaac sold?
- indielist estimates The Binding of Isaac has sold between 2,045,778 and 4,773,482 units (median 3,409,630), derived from its 48,709 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter vv1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed The Binding of Isaac?
- The Binding of Isaac was developed by Edmund McMillen and published by Edmund McMillen.
- When was The Binding of Isaac released?
- The Binding of Isaac was released in 2011.
- How many reviews does The Binding of Isaac have on Steam?
- The Binding of Isaac has 48,709 Steam reviews, of which 95% are positive.
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has The Binding of Isaac sold?
- indielist estimates The Binding of Isaac has sold between 2,045,778 and 4,773,482 units (median 3,409,630), derived from its 48,709 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter vv1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed The Binding of Isaac?
- The Binding of Isaac was developed by Edmund McMillen and published by Edmund McMillen.
- When was The Binding of Isaac released?
- The Binding of Isaac was released in 2011.
- How many reviews does The Binding of Isaac have on Steam?
- The Binding of Isaac has 48,709 Steam reviews, of which 95% are positive.
Ecosystem
Players looking for games like The Binding of Isaac can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Action titles such as The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth, Hades II, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Edmund McMillen's other releases and Edmund McMillen's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where The Binding of Isaac 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 The Binding of Isaac 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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