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Action indie game Eldritch comes from Minor Key Games, which is listed as both developer and publisher. Released in 2013, it has 1,689 Steam reviews marked mixed, with an initial price of $14.99.
Overview
Eldritch is a 2013 Action game developed by Minor Key Games and published by Minor Key Games. On Steam it has gathered 1,697 player reviews, 88% 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 Minor Key Games with publisher Minor Key Games 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 92,000 to 214,000 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, Eldritch can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
1,697
Positive
88%
Steam appid
252630
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.092K to 214K
units (median: 153K)
≈ $785K to $1.8M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2013 | +30 |
| price_$15 | 0 |
| positive_88% | +10 |
| final NB | 90 |
Heuristic display range: median × [0.6, 1.4]. Boundary protection: NB ∈ [15, 150].
Methodology & limitations
Sales estimates use an additive Boxleiter-derived heuristic against public Steam review
counts. They are not authoritative sales data, and the fixed display range
is not a statistically validated confidence interval. Actual results may fall outside it,
especially for deeply discounted or bundle-heavy titles. Algorithm version
v1.0. Read the exact method and validation status.
indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for Eldritch at roughly 92,000 to 214,000 copies, with a median around 153,000, derived from its 1,697 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $1.3M 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
8 observed days · window low $14.99Across 8 observed UTC days from 2026-07-15 to 2026-07-22, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $14.99 to $14.99. The tracked-window low was $14.99 on 2026-07-15.
Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.
Where to buy
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Platforms
linuxwindows
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Eldritch sold?
- indielist estimates Eldritch has sold between 91,638 and 213,822 units (median 152,730), derived from its 1,697 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Eldritch?
- Eldritch was developed by Minor Key Games and published by Minor Key Games.
- Who published Eldritch?
- Eldritch was published by Minor Key Games, developed by Minor Key Games. See Minor Key Games's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was Eldritch released?
- Eldritch was released in 2013.
- How many reviews does Eldritch have on Steam?
- Eldritch has 1,697 Steam reviews, of which 88% are positive.
- Is Eldritch worth playing?
- Steam players rate Eldritch 88% positive across 1,697 reviews. indielist doesn't score games editorially; it surfaces public review sentiment and a white-box sales estimate so you can judge reception and reach yourself.
Ecosystem
Players looking for games like Eldritch can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Action titles such as Rust, Terraria, Phasmophobia, ARK: Survival Evolved, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Minor Key Games's other releases and Minor Key Games's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Eldritch 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 Eldritch 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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