Orcs Must Die!
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Action indie game Orcs Must Die! launched in 2011 from Robot Entertainment, with the developer also listed as publisher. It has 8,489 Steam reviews at 96% positive and an initial $9.99 price point, making it a budget action option with a strong review signal.
Overview
Orcs Must Die! is a 2011 Action game developed by Robot Entertainment and published by Robot Entertainment. On Steam it has gathered 6,645 player reviews, 96% 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 $10. The pairing of developer Robot Entertainment with publisher Robot Entertainment 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 339,000 to 791,000 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, Orcs Must Die! can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
6,645
Positive
96%
Steam appid
102600
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.0339K to 791K
units (median: 565K)
≈ $1.9M to $4.5M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2011 | +30 |
| price_$10 | -5 |
| positive_96% | +10 |
| final NB | 85 |
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 Orcs Must Die! at roughly 339,000 to 791,000 copies, with a median around 565,000, derived from its 6,645 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $3.2M 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
8 observed days · window low $8.41Across 8 observed UTC days from 2026-07-15 to 2026-07-22, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $8.41 to $8.45. The tracked-window low was $8.41 on 2026-07-21.
Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.
Where to buy
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Platforms
windows
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Orcs Must Die! sold?
- indielist estimates Orcs Must Die! has sold between 338,895 and 790,755 units (median 564,825), derived from its 6,645 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Orcs Must Die!?
- Orcs Must Die! was developed by Robot Entertainment and published by Robot Entertainment.
- Who published Orcs Must Die!?
- Orcs Must Die! was published by Robot Entertainment, developed by Robot Entertainment. See Robot Entertainment's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was Orcs Must Die! released?
- Orcs Must Die! was released in 2011.
- How many reviews does Orcs Must Die! have on Steam?
- Orcs Must Die! has 6,645 Steam reviews, of which 96% are positive.
- Is Orcs Must Die! worth playing?
- Steam players rate Orcs Must Die! 96% positive across 6,645 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 Orcs Must Die! can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Action titles such as Rust, Terraria, Phasmophobia, ARK: Survival Evolved, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Robot Entertainment's other releases and Robot Entertainment's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Orcs Must Die! 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 Orcs Must Die! 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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