How many copies has Hot Lava sold?

indielist estimates Hot Lava has sold between 276,840 and 645,960 units (median 461,400), derived from its 6,152 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.

Who published Hot Lava?

Hot Lava was published by Klei Entertainment, developed by Klei Entertainment. See Klei Entertainment's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.

How many reviews does Hot Lava have on Steam?

Hot Lava has 6,152 Steam reviews, of which 93% are positive.

Is Hot Lava worth playing?

Steam players rate Hot Lava 93% positive across 6,152 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.

Hot Lava

Sep 19, 2019 Action $19.99

Developer Klei Entertainment Publisher Klei Entertainment

Profile updated Jun 2026

Precision 3D platforming drives Hot Lava, with parkour, racing, and exploration built around action-focused movement. Klei Entertainment developed and published the 2019 release, which has 6,126 Steam reviews at 93% positive and an initial $19.99 price.

Hot Lava is a 2019 Action game developed by Klei Entertainment and published by Klei Entertainment. On Steam it has gathered 6,152 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 windows, and launched at $20. The pairing of developer Klei Entertainment with publisher Klei Entertainment 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 277,000 to 646,000 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, Hot Lava can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.

Reviews

6,152

Positive

93%

Steam appid

382560

Engine

Unknown

Players (snapshot)

Unavailable

Sales estimate

v1.0

277K to 646K

units (median: 461K)

≈ $3.2M to $7.4M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)

277K median 646K

+ How is this calculated?

6,152 reviews × NB(75) = 461,400 median units

Factor	Adjustment
base	+50
year_2019	+15
price_$20	0
positive_93%	+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 Hot Lava at roughly 277,000 to 646,000 copies, with a median around 461,000, derived from its 6,152 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $5.3M 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

27 observed days · window low $4.99

Across 27 observed UTC days from 2026-06-03 to 2026-07-22, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $4.99 to $19.99. The tracked-window low was $4.99 on 2026-06-12.

Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.

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Platforms

windows

Frequently asked questions

How many copies has Hot Lava sold?: indielist estimates Hot Lava has sold between 276,840 and 645,960 units (median 461,400), derived from its 6,152 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
Who developed Hot Lava?: Hot Lava was developed by Klei Entertainment and published by Klei Entertainment.
Who published Hot Lava?: Hot Lava was published by Klei Entertainment, developed by Klei Entertainment. See Klei Entertainment's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
When was Hot Lava released?: Hot Lava was released in 2019.
How many reviews does Hot Lava have on Steam?: Hot Lava has 6,152 Steam reviews, of which 93% are positive.
Is Hot Lava worth playing?: Steam players rate Hot Lava 93% positive across 6,152 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.

Players looking for games like Hot Lava can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Action titles such as Clustertruck, Neon White, Celeste, Pizza Tower, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Klei Entertainment's other releases and Klei Entertainment's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Hot Lava 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 Hot Lava 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.

Matched from shared Steam tags and primary genre. Review count breaks ties; it is not a personal recommendation score.