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Action-focused vertical platforming defines Downwell, a 2015 release from developer moppin. It has 8,527 Steam reviews with a 97% positive rating, marked overwhelmingly positive, and was published by Devolver Digital at an initial price of $2.99.
Overview
Downwell is a 2015 Action game developed by Moppin and published by Devolver Digital. On Steam it has gathered 7,935 player reviews, 97% of them positive, which counts as a overwhelmingly positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $3. The pairing of developer Moppin with publisher Devolver Digital 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 333,000 to 778,000 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, Downwell can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
7,935
Positive
97%
Steam appid
360740
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.0333K to 778K
units (median: 555K)
≈ $569K to $1.3M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2015 | +30 |
| price_$3 | -20 |
| positive_97% | +10 |
| final NB | 70 |
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 Downwell at roughly 333,000 to 778,000 copies, with a median around 555,000, derived from its 7,935 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $949K 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
13 observed days · window low $0.74Across 13 observed UTC days from 2026-07-28 to 2026-10-20, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $0.74 to $0.75. The tracked-window low was $0.74 on 2026-07-28.
Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.
Where to buy
Affiliate disclosure- Green Man Gaming -75%$0.74 Buy
- GOG.com -75%$0.75 Buy
- Steam reference$2.99 Buy
- Fanatical$3.36 Buy
- Humble Store
Latest tracked store observations (2026-10-20 05:51 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 Downwell sold?
- indielist estimates Downwell has sold between 333,270 and 777,630 units (median 555,450), derived from its 7,935 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Downwell?
- Downwell was developed by Moppin and published by Devolver Digital.
- Who published Downwell?
- Downwell was published by Devolver Digital, developed by Moppin. See Devolver Digital's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was Downwell released?
- Downwell was released in 2015.
- How many reviews does Downwell have on Steam?
- Downwell has 7,935 Steam reviews, of which 97% are positive.
- Is Downwell worth playing?
- Steam players rate Downwell 97% positive across 7,935 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 Downwell can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Action titles such as Terraria, Rust, Phasmophobia, Geometry Dash, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Moppin's other releases and Devolver Digital's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Downwell 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 Downwell 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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