Crypt of the Serpent King
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Action indie game Crypt of the Serpent King launched in 2016 from developer and publisher Rendercode Games. It has 277 Steam reviews listed as mixed with 0% positive, and its initial $1.99 price positions it as a budget release.
Overview
Crypt of the Serpent King is a 2016 Action game developed by Rendercode Games and published by Rendercode Games. On Steam it has gathered 282 player reviews, 83% of them positive, which counts as a mostly positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $2. The pairing of developer Rendercode Games with publisher Rendercode Games 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 10,000 to 24,000 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, Crypt of the Serpent King can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
282
Positive
83%
Steam appid
528730
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.010K to 24K
units (median: 17K)
≈ $12K to $27K modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2016 | +30 |
| price_$2 | -20 |
| positive_83% | 0 |
| 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.
indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for Crypt of the Serpent King at roughly 10,000 to 24,000 copies, with a median around 17,000, derived from its 282 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $19K 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
3 observed days · window low $1.99Across 3 observed UTC days from 2026-08-24 to 2026-09-07, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $1.99 to $1.99. The tracked-window low was $1.99 on 2026-08-24.
Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.
Where to buy
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Platforms
windows
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Crypt of the Serpent King sold?
- indielist estimates Crypt of the Serpent King has sold between 10,152 and 23,688 units (median 16,920), derived from its 282 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Crypt of the Serpent King?
- Crypt of the Serpent King was developed by Rendercode Games and published by Rendercode Games.
- Who published Crypt of the Serpent King?
- Crypt of the Serpent King was published by Rendercode Games, developed by Rendercode Games. See Rendercode Games's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was Crypt of the Serpent King released?
- Crypt of the Serpent King was released in 2016.
- How many reviews does Crypt of the Serpent King have on Steam?
- Crypt of the Serpent King has 282 Steam reviews, of which 83% are positive.
- Is Crypt of the Serpent King worth playing?
- Steam players rate Crypt of the Serpent King 83% positive across 282 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 Crypt of the Serpent King can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Action titles such as Terraria, Rust, Phasmophobia, The Forest, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Rendercode Games's other releases and Rendercode Games's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Crypt of the Serpent King 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 Crypt of the Serpent King 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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