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Four Quarters' Loop Hero (2021) is a roguelike deckbuilder with auto battler mechanics and pixel graphics. With 50,000 Steam reviews at 91% positive, it launched at $14.99. Published by Devolver Digital.
Overview
Loop Hero is a 2021 Indie game developed by Four Quarters and published by Devolver Digital. On Steam it has gathered 36,448 player reviews, 93% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Indie category. The game is available on linux, mac, windows, and launched at $15. The pairing of developer Four Quarters 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 Indie projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 1.6 million to 3.8 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, Loop Hero can be compared against similar Indie titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
36,448
Positive
93%
Steam appid
1282730
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
132
Historical snapshot ·
Sales estimate
v1.01.6M to 3.8M
units (median: 2.7M)
≈ $14.0M to $32.8M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2021 | +15 |
| price_$15 | 0 |
| positive_93% | +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 Loop Hero at roughly 1.6 million to 3.8 million copies, with a median around 2.7 million, derived from its 36,448 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $23.4M 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
54 observed days · window low $2.99Across 54 observed UTC days from 2026-05-15 to 2026-07-22, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $2.99 to $14.99. The tracked-window low was $2.99 on 2026-05-15.
Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.
Where to buy
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- Steam reference$14.99 Buy
- GOG.com$14.99 Buy
- Fanatical$16.88 Buy
- Humble Store
Latest tracked store observations (2026-07-21 18:24 UTC to 2026-07-22 21:45 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
linuxmacwindows
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Loop Hero sold?
- indielist estimates Loop Hero has sold between 1,640,160 and 3,827,040 units (median 2,733,600), derived from its 36,448 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Loop Hero?
- Loop Hero was developed by Four Quarters and published by Devolver Digital.
- Who published Loop Hero?
- Loop Hero was published by Devolver Digital, developed by Four Quarters. See Devolver Digital's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was Loop Hero released?
- Loop Hero was released in 2021.
- How many reviews does Loop Hero have on Steam?
- Loop Hero has 36,448 Steam reviews, of which 93% are positive.
- Is Loop Hero worth playing?
- Steam players rate Loop Hero 93% positive across 36,448 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 Loop Hero can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Indie titles such as Cultist Simulator, Shogun Showdown, The Last Spell, Slay the Spire, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Four Quarters's other releases and Devolver Digital's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Loop Hero 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 Loop Hero page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Indie 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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