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Horror Squad is an action indie game released in 2021, with an initial price of $4.99 placing it in the budget range. Developed and self-published by cheesecake-dev, it has 516 Steam reviews; its engine is unknown.
Overview
Horror Squad is a 2021 Action game developed by Cheesecake Dev and published by Cheesecake Dev. On Steam it has gathered 516 player reviews to date. The game is available on windows, and launched at $5. The pairing of developer Cheesecake Dev with publisher Cheesecake Dev 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 33,000 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, Horror Squad can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
516
Positive
Unknown
Steam appid
1506620
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.014K to 33K
units (median: 23K)
≈ $40K to $93K modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2021 | +15 |
| price_$5 | -20 |
| positive_80% | 0 |
| final NB | 45 |
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 Horror Squad at roughly 14,000 to 33,000 copies, with a median around 23,000, derived from its 516 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $66K 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
1 observed day · window low $1.24Across 1 observed UTC day from 2026-10-28 to 2026-10-28, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $1.24 to $1.24. The tracked-window low was $1.24 on 2026-10-28.
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
- Fanatical
- Humble Store
- GOG.com
Latest tracked store observations (2026-10-28 06:59 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 Horror Squad sold?
- indielist estimates Horror Squad has sold between 13,932 and 32,508 units (median 23,220), derived from its 516 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Horror Squad?
- Horror Squad was developed by Cheesecake Dev and published by Cheesecake Dev.
- Who published Horror Squad?
- Horror Squad was published by Cheesecake Dev, developed by Cheesecake Dev. See Cheesecake Dev's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was Horror Squad released?
- Horror Squad was released in 2021.
- How many reviews does Horror Squad have on Steam?
- Horror Squad has 516 Steam reviews.
Ecosystem
Players looking for games like Horror Squad can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Action titles such as Terraria, Rust, Phasmophobia, Geometry Dash, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Cheesecake Dev's other releases and Cheesecake Dev's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Horror Squad 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 Horror Squad 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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