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Core Keeper is an action-adventure indie RPG released in 2024. It has garnered 48,458 Steam reviews. The developer and publisher information is not yet imported.
Overview
Core Keeper is a 2024 Action game developed by Pugstorm and published by Fireshine Games. On Steam it has gathered 49,416 player reviews, 93% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on linux, windows, and launched at $20. The pairing of developer Pugstorm with publisher Fireshine Games 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 1.8 million to 4.2 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, Core Keeper can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
49,416
Positive
93%
Steam appid
1621690
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
10,852
Historical snapshot ·
Sales estimate
v1.01.8M to 4.2M
units (median: 3.0M)
≈ $20.3M to $47.4M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2024 | 0 |
| price_$20 | 0 |
| positive_93% | +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 Core Keeper at roughly 1.8 million to 4.2 million copies, with a median around 3.0 million, derived from its 49,416 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $33.9M 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
54 observed days · window low $10.07Across 54 observed UTC days from 2026-05-31 to 2026-07-24, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $10.07 to $19.99. The tracked-window low was $10.07 on 2026-06-20.
Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.
Where to buy
Affiliate disclosure- GOG.com -40%$11.99 Buy
- Fanatical -46%$12.18 Buy
- Steam reference -30%$13.99 Buy
- Green Man Gaming$19.99 Buy
- Humble Store$19.99 Buy
Latest tracked store observations (2026-07-24 04:53 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
linuxwindows
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Core Keeper sold?
- indielist estimates Core Keeper has sold between 1,778,976 and 4,150,944 units (median 2,964,960), derived from its 49,416 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Core Keeper?
- Core Keeper was developed by Pugstorm and published by Fireshine Games.
- Who published Core Keeper?
- Core Keeper was published by Fireshine Games, developed by Pugstorm. See Fireshine Games's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was Core Keeper released?
- Core Keeper was released in 2024.
- How many reviews does Core Keeper have on Steam?
- Core Keeper has 49,416 Steam reviews, of which 93% are positive.
- Is Core Keeper worth playing?
- Steam players rate Core Keeper 93% positive across 49,416 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 Core Keeper can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Action titles such as Starbound, Forager, Terraria, Necesse, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Pugstorm's other releases and Fireshine Games's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Core Keeper 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 Core Keeper 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.
You might also like
Matched from shared Steam tags and primary genre. Review count breaks ties; it is not a personal recommendation score.
- S
Starbound
Action
Shared tags: Open World Survival Craft, Sandbox, Survival
- F
Forager
Action
Shared tags: Open World Survival Craft, Survival, Pixel Graphics
- T
Terraria
Action
Shared tags: Open World Survival Craft, Sandbox, Survival
- N
Necesse
Action
Shared tags: Open World Survival Craft, Sandbox, Pixel Graphics
- V
Voidtrain
Action
Shared tags: Open World Survival Craft, Survival, Crafting
- M
My Time at Portia
Adventure
Shared tags: Farming Sim, Crafting, Simulation
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