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Vampire Survivors (2022) is a bullet-heaven auto-battler with pixel graphics, self-published by developer poncle. It has 320,000 Steam reviews (97% positive) and launched at $4.99. The game strips down action-RPG mechanics to focus on character progression and enemy waves.
Overview
Vampire Survivors is a 2022 Action game developed by poncle and published by poncle. On Steam it has gathered 264,182 player reviews, 98% of them positive, which counts as a overwhelmingly positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on mac, windows, and launched at $5. The pairing of developer poncle with publisher poncle 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 6.3 million to 14.8 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, Vampire Survivors can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
264,182
Positive
98%
Steam appid
1794680
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
2,529
Fresh snapshot · · 24h peak 3,799
Sales estimate
v1.06.3M to 14.8M
units (median: 10.6M)
≈ $18.1M to $42.2M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2022 | 0 |
| price_$5 | -20 |
| positive_98% | +10 |
| final NB | 40 |
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 Vampire Survivors at roughly 6.3 million to 14.8 million copies, with a median around 10.6 million, derived from its 264,182 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $30.1M 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
55 observed days · window low $3.74Across 55 observed UTC days from 2026-05-15 to 2026-07-24, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $3.74 to $4.99. The tracked-window low was $3.74 on 2026-06-09.
Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.
Where to buy
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- Green Man Gaming
- Fanatical
- Humble Store
- GOG.com
Latest tracked store observations (2026-07-24 04:48 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
macwindows
Tags
Action RoguelikeBullet HellPixel GraphicsRogue-liteVampire2DIndieSingleplayerCasualArcadeActionRogue-likeRPGControllerRetroScore AttackLocal Co-OpDark FantasyAction RPG1980s
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Vampire Survivors sold?
- indielist estimates Vampire Survivors has sold between 6,340,368 and 14,794,192 units (median 10,567,280), derived from its 264,182 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Vampire Survivors?
- Vampire Survivors was developed by poncle and published by poncle.
- Who published Vampire Survivors?
- Vampire Survivors was published by poncle, developed by poncle. See poncle's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was Vampire Survivors released?
- Vampire Survivors was released in 2022.
- How many reviews does Vampire Survivors have on Steam?
- Vampire Survivors has 264,182 Steam reviews, of which 98% are positive.
- Is Vampire Survivors worth playing?
- Steam players rate Vampire Survivors 98% positive across 264,182 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 Vampire Survivors can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Action titles such as Hero Siege, Halls of Torment, Soulstone Survivors, Nova Drift, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, poncle's other releases and poncle's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Vampire Survivors 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 Vampire Survivors 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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