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Castle Explorer is a casual indie game released in 2017, developed and self-published by mightycodedragon. Its 39 Steam reviews are 82% positive (mostly positive), offering a favorable but small review sample, while its initial $9.99 price places it in the budget range.
Overview
Castle Explorer is a 2017 Casual game developed by MightyCodeDragon and published by MightyCodeDragon. It is tracked in indielist's catalog of indie Casual titles alongside its developer and publisher relationships. The game is available on linux, mac, windows, and launched at $10. The pairing of developer MightyCodeDragon with publisher MightyCodeDragon is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Casual projects reach the market. indielist publishes a transparent, white-box sales estimate with the full Boxleiter factor breakdown on this page rather than a single black-box figure. Within indielist's catalog of indie games mapped to their studios, publishers, and funding, Castle Explorer can be compared against similar Casual titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
0
Positive
82%
Steam appid
531780
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.00 to 0
units (median: 0)
≈ $0 to $0 modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2017 | +30 |
| price_$10 | -5 |
| positive_82% | 0 |
| genre_Casual | -15 |
| final NB | 60 |
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.
Sales estimates for Castle Explorer are not yet available because its Steam review count is still being collected. indielist publishes a fully transparent, white-box Boxleiter-derived method rather than a single black-box number, so every estimate can be inspected factor by factor once review data lands.
Price history
2 observed days · window low $9.99Across 2 observed UTC days from 2026-10-15 to 2026-10-22, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $9.99 to $9.99. The tracked-window low was $9.99 on 2026-10-15.
Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.
Where to buy
Affiliate disclosure- Steam reference$9.99 Buy
- Green Man Gaming
- Fanatical
- Humble Store
- GOG.com
Latest tracked store observations (2026-10-22 07:27 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
linuxmacwindows
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Castle Explorer sold?
- indielist estimates Castle Explorer has sold between 0 and 0 units (median 0), derived from its 0 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Castle Explorer?
- Castle Explorer was developed by MightyCodeDragon and published by MightyCodeDragon.
- Who published Castle Explorer?
- Castle Explorer was published by MightyCodeDragon, developed by MightyCodeDragon. See MightyCodeDragon's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was Castle Explorer released?
- Castle Explorer was released in 2017.
Ecosystem
Players looking for games like Castle Explorer can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Casual titles such as Garry's Mod, Wallpaper Engine, Factorio, Balatro, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, MightyCodeDragon's other releases and MightyCodeDragon's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Castle Explorer 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 Castle Explorer page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Casual 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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