How many copies has Heave Ho sold?

indielist estimates Heave Ho has sold between 96,672 and 225,568 units (median 161,120), derived from its 2,014 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.

Who published Heave Ho?

Heave Ho was published by Devolver Digital, developed by Le Cartel Studio. See Devolver Digital's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.

How many reviews does Heave Ho have on Steam?

Heave Ho has 2,014 Steam reviews, of which 91% are positive.

Is Heave Ho worth playing?

Steam players rate Heave Ho 91% positive across 2,014 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.

Heave Ho

Aug 29, 2019 Adventure $9.99

Developer Le Cartel Studio Publisher Devolver Digital

Profile updated Jun 2026

Adventure indie game Heave Ho comes from le-cartel-studio and was published by Devolver Digital in 2019. It has 1,984 Steam reviews listed as mixed with 0% positive, and its $9.99 initial price places it in the budget range.

Heave Ho is a 2019 Adventure game developed by Le Cartel Studio and published by Devolver Digital. On Steam it has gathered 2,014 player reviews, 91% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Adventure category. The game is available on mac, windows, and launched at $10. The pairing of developer Le Cartel Studio 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 Adventure projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 97,000 to 226,000 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, Heave Ho can be compared against similar Adventure titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.

Reviews

2,014

Positive

91%

Steam appid

905340

Engine

Unknown

Players (snapshot)

Unavailable

Sales estimate

v1.0

97K to 226K

units (median: 161K)

≈ $552K to $1.3M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)

97K median 226K

+ How is this calculated?

2,014 reviews × NB(80) = 161,120 median units

Factor	Adjustment
base	+50
year_2019	+15
price_$10	-5
positive_91%	+10
genre_Adventure	+10
final NB	80

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 Heave Ho at roughly 97,000 to 226,000 copies, with a median around 161,000, derived from its 2,014 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $919K 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

8 observed days · window low $2.49

Across 8 observed UTC days from 2026-07-15 to 2026-07-22, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $2.49 to $9.99. The tracked-window low was $2.49 on 2026-07-21.

Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.

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Platforms

macwindows

Genres

AdventureIndie

Frequently asked questions

How many copies has Heave Ho sold?: indielist estimates Heave Ho has sold between 96,672 and 225,568 units (median 161,120), derived from its 2,014 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
Who developed Heave Ho?: Heave Ho was developed by Le Cartel Studio and published by Devolver Digital.
Who published Heave Ho?: Heave Ho was published by Devolver Digital, developed by Le Cartel Studio. See Devolver Digital's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
When was Heave Ho released?: Heave Ho was released in 2019.
How many reviews does Heave Ho have on Steam?: Heave Ho has 2,014 Steam reviews, of which 91% are positive.
Is Heave Ho worth playing?: Steam players rate Heave Ho 91% positive across 2,014 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.

Players looking for games like Heave Ho can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Adventure titles such as Subnautica, Raft, Satisfactory, Human Fall Flat, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Le Cartel Studio's other releases and Devolver Digital's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Heave Ho 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 Heave Ho 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.

Matched from shared Steam tags and primary genre. Review count breaks ties; it is not a personal recommendation score.