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Action indie game Dreadhunter launched in 2023 from Trickster Arts, with the developer also listed as publisher. On Steam it has 138 reviews at 78% positive, a mostly positive rating, and an initial price of $24.99.
Overview
Dreadhunter is a 2023 Action game developed by Trickster Arts and published by Trickster Arts. On Steam it has gathered 140 player reviews, 79% 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 $25. The pairing of developer Trickster Arts with publisher Trickster Arts 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 5,000 to 11,000 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, Dreadhunter can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
140
Positive
79%
Steam appid
1553710
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.05K to 11K
units (median: 8K)
≈ $66K to $154K modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2023 | 0 |
| price_$25 | +5 |
| positive_79% | 0 |
| 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 Dreadhunter at roughly 5,000 to 11,000 copies, with a median around 8,000, derived from its 140 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $110K 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 $19.99Across 14 observed UTC days from 2026-07-15 to 2026-09-01, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $19.99 to $24.99. The tracked-window low was $19.99 on 2026-08-04.
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 Dreadhunter sold?
- indielist estimates Dreadhunter has sold between 4,620 and 10,780 units (median 7,700), derived from its 140 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Dreadhunter?
- Dreadhunter was developed by Trickster Arts and published by Trickster Arts.
- Who published Dreadhunter?
- Dreadhunter was published by Trickster Arts, developed by Trickster Arts. See Trickster Arts's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was Dreadhunter released?
- Dreadhunter was released in 2023.
- How many reviews does Dreadhunter have on Steam?
- Dreadhunter has 140 Steam reviews, of which 79% are positive.
- Is Dreadhunter worth playing?
- Steam players rate Dreadhunter 79% positive across 140 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 Dreadhunter 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, Trickster Arts's other releases and Trickster Arts's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Dreadhunter 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 Dreadhunter 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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