How many copies has Monster Sanctuary sold?

indielist estimates Monster Sanctuary has sold between 464,625 and 1,084,125 units (median 774,375), derived from its 10,325 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.

Who developed Monster Sanctuary?

Monster Sanctuary was developed by moi rai games and published by Team17.

Who published Monster Sanctuary?

Monster Sanctuary was published by Team17, developed by moi rai games. See Team17's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.

When was Monster Sanctuary released?

Monster Sanctuary was released in 2020.

How many reviews does Monster Sanctuary have on Steam?

Monster Sanctuary has 10,325 Steam reviews, of which 91% are positive.

Is Monster Sanctuary worth playing?

Steam players rate Monster Sanctuary 91% positive across 10,325 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.

Monster Sanctuary

Dec 8, 2020 Action $19.99

Developer moi rai games Publisher Team17

Profile updated Jun 2026

This creature-collecting Metroidvania combines turn-based combat with action-platforming. Released in 2020, it boasts over 12,400 Steam reviews with a 91% positive rating. Published by Team17, it offers a deep singleplayer experience.

Monster Sanctuary is a 2020 Action game developed by moi rai games and published by Team17. On Steam it has gathered 10,325 player reviews, 91% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on linux, mac, windows, and launched at $20. The pairing of developer moi rai games with publisher Team17 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 465,000 to 1.1 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, Monster Sanctuary can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.

Reviews

10,325

Positive

91%

Steam appid

814370

Engine

Unknown

Players (snapshot)

Unavailable

Sales estimate

v1.0

465K to 1.1M

units (median: 774K)

≈ $5.3M to $12.4M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)

465K median 1.1M

+ How is this calculated?

10,325 reviews × NB(75) = 774,375 median units

Factor	Adjustment
base	+50
year_2020	+15
price_$20	0
positive_91%	+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 Monster Sanctuary at roughly 465,000 to 1.1 million copies, with a median around 774,000, derived from its 10,325 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $8.8M 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 $4.35

Across 51 observed UTC days from 2026-06-03 to 2026-07-26, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $4.35 to $19.99. The tracked-window low was $4.35 on 2026-06-29.

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

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Platforms

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Frequently asked questions

How many copies has Monster Sanctuary sold?: indielist estimates Monster Sanctuary has sold between 464,625 and 1,084,125 units (median 774,375), derived from its 10,325 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
Who developed Monster Sanctuary?: Monster Sanctuary was developed by moi rai games and published by Team17.
Who published Monster Sanctuary?: Monster Sanctuary was published by Team17, developed by moi rai games. See Team17's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
When was Monster Sanctuary released?: Monster Sanctuary was released in 2020.
How many reviews does Monster Sanctuary have on Steam?: Monster Sanctuary has 10,325 Steam reviews, of which 91% are positive.
Is Monster Sanctuary worth playing?: Steam players rate Monster Sanctuary 91% positive across 10,325 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 Monster Sanctuary can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Action titles such as Skul: The Hero Slayer, Dust: An Elysian Tail, Touhou Luna Nights, Rabi-Ribi, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, moi rai games's other releases and Team17's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Monster Sanctuary 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 Monster Sanctuary 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.