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Action indie game Hollow Survivors is a budget-priced $9.99 release from developer danny-deer and publisher playway-s-a. Released in 2025, it has 172 Steam reviews at 82% positive, making it a mostly positive, underrated pick in low-cost action games.
Overview
Hollow Survivors is a 2025 Action game developed by Danny Deer and published by PlayWay S.A.. On Steam it has gathered 176 player reviews, 82% of them positive, which counts as a mostly positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on linux, mac, windows, and launched at $10. The pairing of developer Danny Deer with publisher PlayWay S.A. 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 4,000 to 9,000 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, Hollow Survivors can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
176
Positive
82%
Steam appid
2285940
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.04K to 9K
units (median: 6K)
≈ $21K to $49K modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2025 | -10 |
| price_$10 | -5 |
| positive_82% | 0 |
| final NB | 35 |
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 Hollow Survivors at roughly 4,000 to 9,000 copies, with a median around 6,000, derived from its 176 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $35K 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
15 observed days · window low $7.99Across 15 observed UTC days from 2026-07-15 to 2026-09-07, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $7.99 to $9.99. The tracked-window low was $7.99 on 2026-08-17.
Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.
Where to buy
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- Green Man Gaming
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- Humble Store
- GOG.com
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Platforms
linuxmacwindows
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Hollow Survivors sold?
- indielist estimates Hollow Survivors has sold between 3,696 and 8,624 units (median 6,160), derived from its 176 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Hollow Survivors?
- Hollow Survivors was developed by Danny Deer and published by PlayWay S.A..
- Who published Hollow Survivors?
- Hollow Survivors was published by PlayWay S.A., developed by Danny Deer. See PlayWay S.A.'s full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was Hollow Survivors released?
- Hollow Survivors was released in 2025.
- How many reviews does Hollow Survivors have on Steam?
- Hollow Survivors has 176 Steam reviews, of which 82% are positive.
- Is Hollow Survivors worth playing?
- Steam players rate Hollow Survivors 82% positive across 176 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 Hollow Survivors 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, Danny Deer's other releases and PlayWay S.A.'s wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Hollow Survivors 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 Hollow Survivors 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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