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Action-focused indie game Horace launched in 2019 from developer paul-helman and publisher 505-games. Its Steam footprint is modest but positive, with 694 reviews and an 80% mostly positive rating, suggesting an underrated pick at a $14.99 initial price.
Overview
Horace is a 2019 Action game developed by Paul Helman and published by 505 Games. On Steam it has gathered 349 player reviews, 80% 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 $15. The pairing of developer Paul Helman with publisher 505 Games 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 14,000 to 32,000 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, Horace can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
349
Positive
80%
Steam appid
629090
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.014K to 32K
units (median: 23K)
≈ $117K to $272K modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2019 | +15 |
| price_$15 | 0 |
| positive_80% | 0 |
| final NB | 65 |
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 Horace at roughly 14,000 to 32,000 copies, with a median around 23,000, derived from its 349 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $194K 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
12 observed days · window low $3.60Across 12 observed UTC days from 2026-07-17 to 2026-09-02, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $3.60 to $5.99. The tracked-window low was $3.60 on 2026-08-26.
Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.
Where to buy
Affiliate disclosure- Humble Store -76%$3.60 Buy
- Green Man Gaming -70%$4.49 Buy
- GOG.com -70%$4.49 Buy
- Fanatical -71%$4.97 Buy
- Steam reference$14.99 Buy
Latest tracked store observations (2026-09-02 05:53 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
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Horace sold?
- indielist estimates Horace has sold between 13,611 and 31,759 units (median 22,685), derived from its 349 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Horace?
- Horace was developed by Paul Helman and published by 505 Games.
- Who published Horace?
- Horace was published by 505 Games, developed by Paul Helman. See 505 Games's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was Horace released?
- Horace was released in 2019.
- How many reviews does Horace have on Steam?
- Horace has 349 Steam reviews, of which 80% are positive.
- Is Horace worth playing?
- Steam players rate Horace 80% positive across 349 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 Horace 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, Paul Helman's other releases and 505 Games's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Horace 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 Horace 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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