Cyclopean: The Great Abyss
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A dark fantasy adventure indie game with turn-based combat, dungeon crawler RPG structure, and Lovecraftian themes. Released in 2025 by Schmidt Workshops and self-published under the same slug, it has 155 Steam reviews at 89% positive and a $9.99 launch price.
Overview
Cyclopean: The Great Abyss is a 2025 Adventure game developed by Schmidt Workshops and published by Schmidt Workshops. On Steam it has gathered 162 player reviews, 89% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Adventure category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $10. The pairing of developer Schmidt Workshops with publisher Schmidt Workshops is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Adventure projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 5,000 to 12,000 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, Cyclopean: The Great Abyss can be compared against similar Adventure titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
162
Positive
89%
Steam appid
2958790
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.05K to 12K
units (median: 9K)
≈ $31K to $71K modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2025 | -10 |
| price_$10 | -5 |
| positive_89% | +10 |
| genre_Adventure | +10 |
| final NB | 55 |
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 Cyclopean: The Great Abyss at roughly 5,000 to 12,000 copies, with a median around 9,000, derived from its 162 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $51K 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
15 observed days · window low $6.99Across 15 observed UTC days from 2026-07-15 to 2026-09-07, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $6.99 to $9.99. The tracked-window low was $6.99 on 2026-07-20.
Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.
Where to buy
Affiliate disclosure- Steam reference -30%$6.99 Buy
- Green Man Gaming
- Fanatical
- Humble Store
- GOG.com
Latest tracked store observations (2026-09-07 05:49 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
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Cyclopean: The Great Abyss sold?
- indielist estimates Cyclopean: The Great Abyss has sold between 5,346 and 12,474 units (median 8,910), derived from its 162 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Cyclopean: The Great Abyss?
- Cyclopean: The Great Abyss was developed by Schmidt Workshops and published by Schmidt Workshops.
- Who published Cyclopean: The Great Abyss?
- Cyclopean: The Great Abyss was published by Schmidt Workshops, developed by Schmidt Workshops. See Schmidt Workshops's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was Cyclopean: The Great Abyss released?
- Cyclopean: The Great Abyss was released in 2025.
- How many reviews does Cyclopean: The Great Abyss have on Steam?
- Cyclopean: The Great Abyss has 162 Steam reviews, of which 89% are positive.
- Is Cyclopean: The Great Abyss worth playing?
- Steam players rate Cyclopean: The Great Abyss 89% positive across 162 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 Cyclopean: The Great Abyss can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Adventure titles such as Stoneshard, Sea of Stars: Sunset Edition, Darkest Dungeon® II, Keep Driving, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Schmidt Workshops's other releases and Schmidt Workshops's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Cyclopean: The Great Abyss 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 Cyclopean: The Great Abyss page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Adventure 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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- L
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