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Action indie game EMPTY SHELL launched in 2023 from developer cc-arts and publisher Hyperstrange. It has 671 Steam reviews marked mixed with 0% positive listed, and an initial price of $11.99; engine information is not available.
Overview
EMPTY SHELL is a 2023 Action game developed by CC ARTS and published by Hyperstrange. On Steam it has gathered 688 player reviews, 88% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $12. The pairing of developer CC ARTS with publisher Hyperstrange 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 25,000 to 58,000 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, EMPTY SHELL can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
688
Positive
88%
Steam appid
2243110
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.025K to 58K
units (median: 41K)
≈ $170K to $396K modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2023 | 0 |
| price_$12 | 0 |
| positive_88% | +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 EMPTY SHELL at roughly 25,000 to 58,000 copies, with a median around 41,000, derived from its 688 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $283K 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 $4.89Across 8 observed UTC days from 2026-07-15 to 2026-07-22, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $4.89 to $4.89. The tracked-window low was $4.89 on 2026-07-15.
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 EMPTY SHELL sold?
- indielist estimates EMPTY SHELL has sold between 24,768 and 57,792 units (median 41,280), derived from its 688 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed EMPTY SHELL?
- EMPTY SHELL was developed by CC ARTS and published by Hyperstrange.
- Who published EMPTY SHELL?
- EMPTY SHELL was published by Hyperstrange, developed by CC ARTS. See Hyperstrange's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was EMPTY SHELL released?
- EMPTY SHELL was released in 2023.
- How many reviews does EMPTY SHELL have on Steam?
- EMPTY SHELL has 688 Steam reviews, of which 88% are positive.
- Is EMPTY SHELL worth playing?
- Steam players rate EMPTY SHELL 88% positive across 688 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 EMPTY SHELL 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, CC ARTS's other releases and Hyperstrange's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where EMPTY SHELL 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 EMPTY SHELL 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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