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Action indie game 1001 Spikes launched in 2014 from Nicalis Inc., with Nicalis Inc. also listed as publisher. It has 488 Steam reviews marked mixed at 0% positive, an initial price of $14.99, and no engine listed.
Overview
1001 Spikes is a 2014 Action game developed by Nicalis, Inc. and published by Nicalis, Inc.. On Steam it has gathered 491 player reviews, 83% of them positive, which counts as a mostly positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on linux, mac, windows, and launched at $15. The pairing of developer Nicalis, Inc. with publisher Nicalis, Inc. 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 24,000 to 55,000 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, 1001 Spikes can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
491
Positive
83%
Steam appid
260790
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.024K to 55K
units (median: 39K)
≈ $202K to $471K modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2014 | +30 |
| price_$15 | 0 |
| positive_83% | 0 |
| final NB | 80 |
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 1001 Spikes at roughly 24,000 to 55,000 copies, with a median around 39,000, derived from its 491 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $336K 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 $14.99Across 8 observed UTC days from 2026-07-15 to 2026-07-22, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $14.99 to $14.99. The tracked-window low was $14.99 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
linuxmacwindows
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has 1001 Spikes sold?
- indielist estimates 1001 Spikes has sold between 23,568 and 54,992 units (median 39,280), derived from its 491 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed 1001 Spikes?
- 1001 Spikes was developed by Nicalis, Inc. and published by Nicalis, Inc..
- Who published 1001 Spikes?
- 1001 Spikes was published by Nicalis, Inc., developed by Nicalis, Inc.. See Nicalis, Inc.'s full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was 1001 Spikes released?
- 1001 Spikes was released in 2014.
- How many reviews does 1001 Spikes have on Steam?
- 1001 Spikes has 491 Steam reviews, of which 83% are positive.
- Is 1001 Spikes worth playing?
- Steam players rate 1001 Spikes 83% positive across 491 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 1001 Spikes 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, Nicalis, Inc.'s other releases and Nicalis, Inc.'s wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where 1001 Spikes 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 1001 Spikes 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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