How many copies has Katana ZERO sold?

indielist estimates Katana ZERO has sold between 2,967,030 and 6,923,070 units (median 4,945,050), derived from its 65,934 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.

Who developed Katana ZERO?

Katana ZERO was developed by Askiisoft and published by Devolver Digital.

Who published Katana ZERO?

Katana ZERO was published by Devolver Digital, developed by Askiisoft. See Devolver Digital's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.

When was Katana ZERO released?

Katana ZERO was released in 2019.

How many reviews does Katana ZERO have on Steam?

Katana ZERO has 65,934 Steam reviews, of which 98% are positive.

Is Katana ZERO worth playing?

Steam players rate Katana ZERO 98% positive across 65,934 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.

Katana ZERO

Apr 18, 2019 Action $14.99

Developer Askiisoft Publisher Devolver Digital

Profile updated May 2026

Katana ZERO is a 2019 action indie game. It has garnered 65,314 Steam reviews. Publisher and developer attribution are not yet imported.

Katana ZERO is a 2019 Action game developed by Askiisoft and published by Devolver Digital. On Steam it has gathered 65,934 player reviews, 98% of them positive, which counts as a overwhelmingly positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on mac, windows, and launched at $15. The pairing of developer Askiisoft with publisher Devolver Digital 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 3.0 million to 6.9 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, Katana ZERO can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.

Reviews

65,934

Positive

98%

Steam appid

460950

Engine

Unknown

Players (snapshot)

Historical snapshot · 2026-06-10 02:45 UTC

Sales estimate

v1.0

3.0M to 6.9M

units (median: 4.9M)

≈ $25.4M to $59.3M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)

3.0M median 6.9M

+ How is this calculated?

65,934 reviews × NB(75) = 4,945,050 median units

Factor	Adjustment
base	+50
year_2019	+15
price_$15	0
positive_98%	+10
final NB	75

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 Katana ZERO at roughly 3.0 million to 6.9 million copies, with a median around 4.9 million, derived from its 65,934 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $42.3M 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

54 observed days · window low $8.52

Across 54 observed UTC days from 2026-05-31 to 2026-07-24, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $8.52 to $14.29. The tracked-window low was $8.52 on 2026-06-25.

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

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Platforms

macwindows

Frequently asked questions

How many copies has Katana ZERO sold?: indielist estimates Katana ZERO has sold between 2,967,030 and 6,923,070 units (median 4,945,050), derived from its 65,934 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
Who developed Katana ZERO?: Katana ZERO was developed by Askiisoft and published by Devolver Digital.
Who published Katana ZERO?: Katana ZERO was published by Devolver Digital, developed by Askiisoft. See Devolver Digital's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
When was Katana ZERO released?: Katana ZERO was released in 2019.
How many reviews does Katana ZERO have on Steam?: Katana ZERO has 65,934 Steam reviews, of which 98% are positive.
Is Katana ZERO worth playing?: Steam players rate Katana ZERO 98% positive across 65,934 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 Katana ZERO can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Action titles such as SANABI, Turbo Overkill, Axiom Verge, Celeste, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Askiisoft's other releases and Devolver Digital's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Katana ZERO 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 Katana ZERO 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.