How many copies has GRIME sold?

indielist estimates GRIME has sold between 192,192 and 448,448 units (median 320,320), derived from its 4,576 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.

GRIME was developed by Clover Bite and published by Akupara Games.

GRIME was published by Akupara Games, developed by Clover Bite. See Akupara Games's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.

How many reviews does GRIME have on Steam?

GRIME has 4,576 Steam reviews, of which 85% are positive.

Is GRIME worth playing?

Steam players rate GRIME 85% positive across 4,576 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.

GRIME

Aug 2, 2021 Action $24.99

Developer Clover Bite Publisher Akupara Games

Profile updated Jun 2026

Action-focused Metroidvania with Souls-like, platforming, dark fantasy, and difficult combat tags. GRIME launched in 2021 from developer clover-bite and publisher akupara-games, with 6,568 Steam reviews at 85% positive and a $24.99 initial price.

GRIME is a 2021 Action game developed by Clover Bite and published by Akupara Games. On Steam it has gathered 4,576 player reviews, 85% of them positive, which counts as a mostly positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on mac, windows, and launched at $25. The pairing of developer Clover Bite with publisher Akupara 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 192,000 to 448,000 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, GRIME can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.

Reviews

4,576

Positive

85%

Steam appid

1123050

Engine

Unknown

Players (snapshot)

Unavailable

Sales estimate

v1.0

192K to 448K

units (median: 320K)

≈ $2.7M to $6.4M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)

192K median 448K

+ How is this calculated?

4,576 reviews × NB(70) = 320,320 median units

Factor	Adjustment
base	+50
year_2021	+15
price_$25	+5
positive_85%	0
final NB	70

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 GRIME at roughly 192,000 to 448,000 copies, with a median around 320,000, derived from its 4,576 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $4.6M 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

51 observed days · window low $8.12

Across 51 observed UTC days from 2026-06-03 to 2026-07-24, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $8.12 to $21.93. The tracked-window low was $8.12 on 2026-06-25.

Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.

Where to buy

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Steam reference -55%

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Humble Store

$24.99 Buy

Latest tracked store observations (2026-07-05 05:27 UTC to 2026-07-24 05:18 UTC), cheapest first. Prices may have changed since observation. Some are affiliate links — we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. Learn more.

Platforms

macwindows

Frequently asked questions

How many copies has GRIME sold?: indielist estimates GRIME has sold between 192,192 and 448,448 units (median 320,320), derived from its 4,576 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
Who developed GRIME?: GRIME was developed by Clover Bite and published by Akupara Games.
Who published GRIME?: GRIME was published by Akupara Games, developed by Clover Bite. See Akupara Games's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
When was GRIME released?: GRIME was released in 2021.
How many reviews does GRIME have on Steam?: GRIME has 4,576 Steam reviews, of which 85% are positive.
Is GRIME worth playing?: Steam players rate GRIME 85% positive across 4,576 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.

Players looking for games like GRIME can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Action titles such as Hollow Knight, Salt and Sanctuary, LIMBO, Tails of Iron, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Clover Bite's other releases and Akupara Games's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where GRIME 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 GRIME 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.

Matched from shared Steam tags and primary genre. Review count breaks ties; it is not a personal recommendation score.