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This action rogue-lite features co-op multiplayer and pixel graphics. Released in 2018, Heroes of Hammerwatch has garnered 9,473 Steam reviews with an 87% positive rating. It was published by Team17.
Overview
Heroes of Hammerwatch is a 2018 Action game developed by Crackshell and published by Team17. On Steam it has gathered 9,495 player reviews, 87% 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 $15. The pairing of developer Crackshell with publisher Team17 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 427,000 to 997,000 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, Heroes of Hammerwatch can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
9,495
Positive
87%
Steam appid
677120
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.0427K to 997K
units (median: 712K)
≈ $3.7M to $8.5M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2018 | +15 |
| price_$15 | 0 |
| positive_87% | +10 |
| final NB | 75 |
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 Heroes of Hammerwatch at roughly 427,000 to 997,000 copies, with a median around 712,000, derived from its 9,495 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $6.1M 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
50 observed days · window low $2.09Across 50 observed UTC days from 2026-06-03 to 2026-07-22, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $2.09 to $11.99. The tracked-window low was $2.09 on 2026-06-22.
Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.
Where to buy
Affiliate disclosure- Humble Store$11.99 Buy
- GOG.com$11.99 Buy
- Fanatical -10%$12.10 Buy
- Steam reference$14.99 Buy
- Green Man Gaming
Latest tracked store observations (2026-07-22 11:03 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
Tags
Rogue-liteAction RoguelikeCo-opPixel GraphicsMultiplayerDungeon CrawlerRPGOnline Co-OpIndieActionAdventure2DHack and SlashProcedural GenerationTop-DownRogue-likeBullet HellSingleplayerAction RPGFantasy
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Heroes of Hammerwatch sold?
- indielist estimates Heroes of Hammerwatch has sold between 427,275 and 996,975 units (median 712,125), derived from its 9,495 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Heroes of Hammerwatch?
- Heroes of Hammerwatch was developed by Crackshell and published by Team17.
- Who published Heroes of Hammerwatch?
- Heroes of Hammerwatch was published by Team17, developed by Crackshell. See Team17's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was Heroes of Hammerwatch released?
- Heroes of Hammerwatch was released in 2018.
- How many reviews does Heroes of Hammerwatch have on Steam?
- Heroes of Hammerwatch has 9,495 Steam reviews, of which 87% are positive.
- Is Heroes of Hammerwatch worth playing?
- Steam players rate Heroes of Hammerwatch 87% positive across 9,495 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 Heroes of Hammerwatch can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Action titles such as Hero Siege, Children of Morta, Wizard of Legend, Heroes of Hammerwatch II, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Crackshell's other releases and Team17's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Heroes of Hammerwatch 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 Heroes of Hammerwatch 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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