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Fast action indie game from developer terri-vellmann, published by Devolver Digital. High Hell launched in 2017 and has 1,408 Steam reviews marked mixed, with an initial $9.99 price point for budget-focused buyers.
Overview
High Hell is a 2017 Action game developed by Terri Vellmann and published by Devolver Digital. On Steam it has gathered 1,409 player reviews, 86% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on mac, windows, and launched at $10. The pairing of developer Terri Vellmann 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 72,000 to 168,000 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, High Hell can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
1,409
Positive
86%
Steam appid
673000
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.072K to 168K
units (median: 120K)
≈ $410K to $957K modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2017 | +30 |
| price_$10 | -5 |
| positive_86% | +10 |
| final NB | 85 |
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 High Hell at roughly 72,000 to 168,000 copies, with a median around 120,000, derived from its 1,409 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $683K 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
6 observed days · window low $1.99Across 6 observed UTC days from 2026-08-02 to 2026-09-06, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $1.99 to $9.99. The tracked-window low was $1.99 on 2026-08-02.
Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.
Where to buy
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Platforms
macwindows
Genres
ActionIndie
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has High Hell sold?
- indielist estimates High Hell has sold between 71,859 and 167,671 units (median 119,765), derived from its 1,409 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed High Hell?
- High Hell was developed by Terri Vellmann and published by Devolver Digital.
- Who published High Hell?
- High Hell was published by Devolver Digital, developed by Terri Vellmann. See Devolver Digital's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was High Hell released?
- High Hell was released in 2017.
- How many reviews does High Hell have on Steam?
- High Hell has 1,409 Steam reviews, of which 86% are positive.
- Is High Hell worth playing?
- Steam players rate High Hell 86% positive across 1,409 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 High Hell 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, Terri Vellmann's other releases and Devolver Digital's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where High Hell 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 High Hell 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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