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This action platformer, a Metroidvania with pixel graphics and a great soundtrack, launched in 2011. Developed and published by Nicalis, it has garnered 8,062 Steam reviews with a 93% positive rating.
Overview
Cave Story+ is a 2011 Action game developed by Nicalis, Inc. and published by Nicalis, Inc.. On Steam it has gathered 8,082 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 linux, windows, and launched at $15. The pairing of developer Nicalis, Inc. with publisher Nicalis, Inc. 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 436,000 to 1.0 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, Cave Story+ can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
8,082
Positive
93%
Steam appid
200900
Engine
Unknown
Sales estimate
vv1.0436K to 1.0M
units (median: 727K)
≈ $3.7M to $8.7M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2011 | +30 |
| price_$15 | 0 |
| positive_93% | +10 |
| final NB | 90 |
Confidence range: median × [0.6, 1.4]. Boundary protection: NB ∈ [15, 150].
Methodology & limitations
Sales estimates use a multi-factor Boxleiter method against public Steam review counts.
They are not authoritative sales data. Actual sales can deviate by
±50% in either direction. Free-to-play games, deeply discounted titles, and games
with heavy bundle distribution have larger error margins. Algorithm version
v1.0.
indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for Cave Story+ at roughly 436,000 to 1.0 million copies, with a median around 727,000, derived from its 8,082 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $6.2M 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
90d · low $7.71Over the last 90 days the price ranged from $7.71 to $14.99, averaging $13.76 across 3 discount windows, with a historical low of $7.71 on 2026-05-20.
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Where to buy
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Platforms
linuxwindows
Tags
PlatformerMetroidvaniaIndieGreat SoundtrackPixel GraphicsActionAdventure2DSingleplayerRetroClassicExplorationReplay ValueDifficultStory RichShooterRemakeCuteSci-fiAnime
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Cave Story+ sold?
- indielist estimates Cave Story+ has sold between 436,428 and 1,018,332 units (median 727,380), derived from its 8,082 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter vv1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Cave Story+?
- Cave Story+ was developed by Nicalis, Inc. and published by Nicalis, Inc..
- When was Cave Story+ released?
- Cave Story+ was released in 2011.
- How many reviews does Cave Story+ have on Steam?
- Cave Story+ has 8,082 Steam reviews, of which 93% are positive.
Ecosystem
indielist positions Cave Story+ within the Action segment so players can surface comparable titles by shared tags and genre rather than by storefront promotion. On the developer side, Nicalis, Inc.'s other releases and Nicalis, Inc.'s wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Cave Story+ 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 Cave Story+ 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.