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Backpack Dungeon

Jul 14, 2026 Indie $3.99
Developer 夜喵 Publisher Shuffle Play Games
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Backpack Dungeon is a budget indie game published by Shuffle Play Games, with a $3.99 initial price and a 2026 release. Its Steam reception is modest but strong: 447 reviews at 88% positive, rated Very Positive.

Overview

Backpack Dungeon is a 2026 Indie game developed by 夜喵 and published by Shuffle Play Games. On Steam it has gathered 626 player reviews, 89% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Indie category. The game is available on mac, windows, and launched at $4. The pairing of developer 夜喵 with publisher Shuffle Play Games is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Indie projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 11,000 to 26,000 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, Backpack Dungeon can be compared against similar Indie titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.

Reviews

626

Positive

89%

Steam appid

4478640

Engine

Unknown

Players (snapshot)

Unavailable

Sales estimate

v1.0

11K to 26K

units (median: 19K)

≈ $26K to $60K modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)

11K median 26K
+ How is this calculated?
626 reviews × NB(30) = 18,780 median units
Factor Adjustment
base +50
year_2026 -10
price_$4 -20
positive_89% +10
final NB 30

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 Backpack Dungeon at roughly 11,000 to 26,000 copies, with a median around 19,000, derived from its 626 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $43K 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

No tracked store price observations are available for this game in the last 90 days.

Where to buy

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Platforms

macwindows

Genres

IndieRPGStrategy

Frequently asked questions

How many copies has Backpack Dungeon sold?
indielist estimates Backpack Dungeon has sold between 11,268 and 26,292 units (median 18,780), derived from its 626 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
Who developed Backpack Dungeon?
Backpack Dungeon was developed by 夜喵 and published by Shuffle Play Games.
Who published Backpack Dungeon?
Backpack Dungeon was published by Shuffle Play Games, developed by 夜喵. See Shuffle Play Games's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
When was Backpack Dungeon released?
Backpack Dungeon was released in 2026.
How many reviews does Backpack Dungeon have on Steam?
Backpack Dungeon has 626 Steam reviews, of which 89% are positive.
Is Backpack Dungeon worth playing?
Steam players rate Backpack Dungeon 89% positive across 626 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 Backpack Dungeon can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Indie titles such as Stardew Valley, Euro Truck Simulator 2, Project Zomboid, Undertale, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, 夜喵's other releases and Shuffle Play Games's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Backpack Dungeon 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 Backpack Dungeon page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Indie 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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