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Gold Hunter sits in the primary indie genre, with no Steam tags listed to clarify its niche. Released in 2022 by developer and publisher extreme-studios, this self-published indie game has 558 Steam reviews, marked mixed with 0% positive shown, and launched at $24.99.
Overview
Gold Hunter is a 2022 Casual game developed by eXtreme Studios and published by eXtreme Studios. On Steam it has gathered 559 player reviews, 41% of them positive, which counts as a mixed reception among indie titles in the Casual category. The game is available on windows. The pairing of developer eXtreme Studios with publisher eXtreme Studios is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Casual projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 8,000 to 20,000 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, Gold Hunter can be compared against similar Casual titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
559
Positive
41%
Steam appid
1082450
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.08K to 20K
units (median: 14K)
≈ $72K to $168K modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2022 | 0 |
| price_$15 | 0 |
| positive_41% | -10 |
| genre_Casual | -15 |
| final NB | 25 |
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 Gold Hunter at roughly 8,000 to 20,000 copies, with a median around 14,000, derived from its 559 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $120K 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
2 observed days · window low $17.49Across 2 observed UTC days from 2026-08-01 to 2026-08-08, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $17.49 to $24.99. The tracked-window low was $17.49 on 2026-08-01.
Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.
Where to buy
Affiliate disclosure- Steam reference$24.99 Buy
- Green Man Gaming
- Fanatical
- Humble Store
- GOG.com
Latest tracked store observations (2026-08-08 05:47 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
CasualIndieSimulationEarly Access
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Gold Hunter sold?
- indielist estimates Gold Hunter has sold between 8,385 and 19,565 units (median 13,975), derived from its 559 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Gold Hunter?
- Gold Hunter was developed by eXtreme Studios and published by eXtreme Studios.
- Who published Gold Hunter?
- Gold Hunter was published by eXtreme Studios, developed by eXtreme Studios. See eXtreme Studios's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was Gold Hunter released?
- Gold Hunter was released in 2022.
- How many reviews does Gold Hunter have on Steam?
- Gold Hunter has 559 Steam reviews, of which 41% are positive.
- Is Gold Hunter worth playing?
- Steam players rate Gold Hunter 41% positive across 559 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 Gold Hunter can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Casual titles such as Garry's Mod, Wallpaper Engine, Factorio, Balatro, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, eXtreme Studios's other releases and eXtreme Studios's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Gold Hunter 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 Gold Hunter page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Casual 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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