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HROT is an action game released in 2023. It has garnered over 5,150 Steam reviews. The developer and publisher information is not yet imported.
Overview
HROT is a 2023 Action game developed by Spytihněv and published by Spytihněv. On Steam it has gathered 6,469 player reviews, 97% of them positive, which counts as a overwhelmingly positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $20. The pairing of developer Spytihněv with publisher Spytihněv 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 233,000 to 543,000 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, HROT can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
6,469
Positive
97%
Steam appid
824600
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
29
Historical snapshot ·
Sales estimate
v1.0233K to 543K
units (median: 388K)
≈ $2.7M to $6.2M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2023 | 0 |
| price_$20 | 0 |
| positive_97% | +10 |
| final NB | 60 |
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 HROT at roughly 233,000 to 543,000 copies, with a median around 388,000, derived from its 6,469 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $4.4M 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
38 observed days · window low $6.79Across 38 observed UTC days from 2026-05-31 to 2026-07-24, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $6.79 to $19.99. The tracked-window low was $6.79 on 2026-06-26.
Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.
Where to buy
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Platforms
windows
Tags
RetroFPSShooterBoomer ShooterIndieFirst-PersonActionSingleplayerOld SchoolGoreViolentDarkHorrorAtmospheric1980sAlternate HistoryBloodHorsesDrivingVehicular Combat
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has HROT sold?
- indielist estimates HROT has sold between 232,884 and 543,396 units (median 388,140), derived from its 6,469 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed HROT?
- HROT was developed by Spytihněv and published by Spytihněv.
- Who published HROT?
- HROT was published by Spytihněv, developed by Spytihněv. See Spytihněv's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was HROT released?
- HROT was released in 2023.
- How many reviews does HROT have on Steam?
- HROT has 6,469 Steam reviews, of which 97% are positive.
- Is HROT worth playing?
- Steam players rate HROT 97% positive across 6,469 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 HROT can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Action titles such as CULTIC, Trepang2, Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun, Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Spytihněv's other releases and Spytihněv's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where HROT 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 HROT 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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