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Indie game entry Dark Hero Party comes from developer u-room and publisher Kagura Games. It launched in 2020 at an initial price of $14.99 and has 351 Steam reviews, listed as mixed with 0% positive in the provided data.
Overview
Dark Hero Party is a 2020 Indie game developed by U-ROOM and published by Kagura Games. On Steam it has gathered 352 player reviews, 65% of them positive, which counts as a mixed reception among indie titles in the Indie category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $15. The pairing of developer U-ROOM with publisher Kagura 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 12,000 to 27,000 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, Dark Hero Party can be compared against similar Indie titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
352
Positive
65%
Steam appid
1015790
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.012K to 27K
units (median: 19K)
≈ $99K to $232K modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2020 | +15 |
| price_$15 | 0 |
| positive_65% | -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 Dark Hero Party at roughly 12,000 to 27,000 copies, with a median around 19,000, derived from its 352 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $166K 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
14 observed days · window low $7.49Across 14 observed UTC days from 2026-07-15 to 2026-09-02, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $7.49 to $14.99. The tracked-window low was $7.49 on 2026-07-15.
Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.
Where to buy
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- Green Man Gaming
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- Humble Store
- GOG.com
Latest tracked store observations (2026-09-02 06:33 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
Genres
IndieRPG
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Dark Hero Party sold?
- indielist estimates Dark Hero Party has sold between 11,616 and 27,104 units (median 19,360), derived from its 352 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Dark Hero Party?
- Dark Hero Party was developed by U-ROOM and published by Kagura Games.
- Who published Dark Hero Party?
- Dark Hero Party was published by Kagura Games, developed by U-ROOM. See Kagura Games's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was Dark Hero Party released?
- Dark Hero Party was released in 2020.
- How many reviews does Dark Hero Party have on Steam?
- Dark Hero Party has 352 Steam reviews, of which 65% are positive.
- Is Dark Hero Party worth playing?
- Steam players rate Dark Hero Party 65% positive across 352 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 Dark Hero Party 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, U-ROOM's other releases and Kagura Games's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Dark Hero Party 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 Dark Hero Party 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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