How many copies has Rift of the NecroDancer sold?

indielist estimates Rift of the NecroDancer has sold between 168,960 and 394,240 units (median 281,600), derived from its 5,632 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.

Who developed Rift of the NecroDancer?

Rift of the NecroDancer was developed by Brace Yourself Games and published by Klei Publishing.

Who published Rift of the NecroDancer?

Rift of the NecroDancer was published by Klei Publishing, developed by Brace Yourself Games. See Klei Publishing's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.

When was Rift of the NecroDancer released?

Rift of the NecroDancer was released in 2025.

How many reviews does Rift of the NecroDancer have on Steam?

Rift of the NecroDancer has 5,632 Steam reviews, of which 94% are positive.

Is Rift of the NecroDancer worth playing?

Steam players rate Rift of the NecroDancer 94% positive across 5,632 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.

Rift of the NecroDancer

Feb 5, 2025 Action $19.99

Developer Brace Yourself Games Publisher Klei Publishing

Profile updated May 2026

Rift of the NecroDancer is an action RPG releasing in 2025. This indie title has already garnered 5,272 Steam reviews, indicating significant player interest prior to its launch. The developer is currently unknown.

Rift of the NecroDancer is a 2025 Action game developed by Brace Yourself Games and published by Klei Publishing. On Steam it has gathered 5,632 player reviews, 94% 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 Brace Yourself Games with publisher Klei Publishing 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 169,000 to 394,000 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, Rift of the NecroDancer can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.

Reviews

5,632

Positive

94%

Steam appid

2073250

Engine

Unknown

Players (snapshot)

124

Historical snapshot · 2026-05-24 14:00 UTC

Sales estimate

v1.0

169K to 394K

units (median: 282K)

≈ $1.9M to $4.5M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)

169K median 394K

+ How is this calculated?

5,632 reviews × NB(50) = 281,600 median units

Factor	Adjustment
base	+50
year_2025	-10
price_$20	0
positive_94%	+10
final NB	50

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 Rift of the NecroDancer at roughly 169,000 to 394,000 copies, with a median around 282,000, derived from its 5,632 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $3.2M 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

25 observed days · window low $8.99

Across 25 observed UTC days from 2026-05-31 to 2026-07-22, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $8.99 to $19.99. The tracked-window low was $8.99 on 2026-06-12.

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

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Platforms

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Frequently asked questions

How many copies has Rift of the NecroDancer sold?: indielist estimates Rift of the NecroDancer has sold between 168,960 and 394,240 units (median 281,600), derived from its 5,632 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
Who developed Rift of the NecroDancer?: Rift of the NecroDancer was developed by Brace Yourself Games and published by Klei Publishing.
Who published Rift of the NecroDancer?: Rift of the NecroDancer was published by Klei Publishing, developed by Brace Yourself Games. See Klei Publishing's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
When was Rift of the NecroDancer released?: Rift of the NecroDancer was released in 2025.
How many reviews does Rift of the NecroDancer have on Steam?: Rift of the NecroDancer has 5,632 Steam reviews, of which 94% are positive.
Is Rift of the NecroDancer worth playing?: Steam players rate Rift of the NecroDancer 94% positive across 5,632 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 Rift of the NecroDancer can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Action titles such as Muse Dash, Melatonin, Geometry Dash, Rhythm Doctor, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Brace Yourself Games's other releases and Klei Publishing's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Rift of the NecroDancer 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 Rift of the NecroDancer 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.