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Absolver is a martial arts action game featuring online PvP. Developed by Sloclap and published by Devolver Digital, it launched in 2017. Steam reviews number 14,769, with 72% positive feedback.
Overview
Absolver is a 2017 Action game developed by Sloclap and published by Devolver Digital. On Steam it has gathered 11,461 player reviews, 73% of them positive, which counts as a mixed-to-positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $30. The pairing of developer Sloclap with publisher Devolver Digital 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 585,000 to 1.4 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, Absolver can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
11,461
Positive
73%
Steam appid
473690
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.0585K to 1.4M
units (median: 974K)
≈ $10.0M to $23.4M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2017 | +30 |
| price_$30 | +5 |
| positive_73% | 0 |
| final NB | 85 |
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 Absolver at roughly 585,000 to 1.4 million copies, with a median around 974,000, derived from its 11,461 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $16.7M 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 $2.99Across 50 observed UTC days from 2026-06-03 to 2026-07-22, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $2.99 to $29.99. The tracked-window low was $2.99 on 2026-06-03.
Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.
Where to buy
Affiliate disclosure- Steam reference$29.99 Buy
- Green Man Gaming$29.99 Buy
- GOG.com$29.99 Buy
- Fanatical$33.08 Buy
- Humble Store
Latest tracked store observations (2026-07-22 07:58 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
windows
Tags
FightingMartial ArtsActionMultiplayerPvPOpen WorldAdventureIndiePvEOnline Co-OpRPGCharacter CustomizationDifficultCo-opSwordplaySingleplayerMMORPGMassively MultiplayerAtmosphericSouls-like
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Absolver sold?
- indielist estimates Absolver has sold between 584,511 and 1,363,859 units (median 974,185), derived from its 11,461 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Absolver?
- Absolver was developed by Sloclap and published by Devolver Digital.
- Who published Absolver?
- Absolver was published by Devolver Digital, developed by Sloclap. See Devolver Digital's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was Absolver released?
- Absolver was released in 2017.
- How many reviews does Absolver have on Steam?
- Absolver has 11,461 Steam reviews, of which 73% are positive.
- Is Absolver worth playing?
- Steam players rate Absolver 73% positive across 11,461 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 Absolver can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Action titles such as Terraria, Valheim, Don't Starve Together, ARK: Survival Ascended, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Sloclap's other releases and Devolver Digital's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Absolver 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 Absolver 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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