First Cut: Samurai Duel
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Action indie game built around samurai duels, First Cut: Samurai Duel launched in 2024 at a $8.99 budget price. It has 1,853 Steam reviews listed as mixed with 0% positive, and is developed and published by Night Eyes Interactive.
Overview
First Cut: Samurai Duel is a 2024 Action game developed by Night Eyes Interactive and published by Night Eyes Interactive. On Steam it has gathered 1,893 player reviews, 89% 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 $9. The pairing of developer Night Eyes Interactive with publisher Night Eyes Interactive 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 62,000 to 146,000 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, First Cut: Samurai Duel can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
1,893
Positive
89%
Steam appid
2193490
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.062K to 146K
units (median: 104K)
≈ $321K to $748K modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2024 | 0 |
| price_$9 | -5 |
| positive_89% | +10 |
| final NB | 55 |
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 First Cut: Samurai Duel at roughly 62,000 to 146,000 copies, with a median around 104,000, derived from its 1,893 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $535K 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 $8.99Across 8 observed UTC days from 2026-07-15 to 2026-07-22, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $8.99 to $8.99. The tracked-window low was $8.99 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
Genres
ActionIndie
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has First Cut: Samurai Duel sold?
- indielist estimates First Cut: Samurai Duel has sold between 62,469 and 145,761 units (median 104,115), derived from its 1,893 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed First Cut: Samurai Duel?
- First Cut: Samurai Duel was developed by Night Eyes Interactive and published by Night Eyes Interactive.
- Who published First Cut: Samurai Duel?
- First Cut: Samurai Duel was published by Night Eyes Interactive, developed by Night Eyes Interactive. See Night Eyes Interactive's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was First Cut: Samurai Duel released?
- First Cut: Samurai Duel was released in 2024.
- How many reviews does First Cut: Samurai Duel have on Steam?
- First Cut: Samurai Duel has 1,893 Steam reviews, of which 89% are positive.
- Is First Cut: Samurai Duel worth playing?
- Steam players rate First Cut: Samurai Duel 89% positive across 1,893 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 First Cut: Samurai Duel 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, Night Eyes Interactive's other releases and Night Eyes Interactive's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where First Cut: Samurai Duel 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 First Cut: Samurai Duel 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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