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Casual indie game Novice Dungeon Master targets players looking for a lighter dungeon-management experience. It launched in 2024 from lazycnd, with the same slug listed as developer and publisher, and has 149 Steam reviews at 89% positive. Priced at $11.99, it fits an underrated pick with modest review volume.
Overview
Novice Dungeon Master is a 2024 Casual game developed by LazyCnD and published by LazyCnD. On Steam it has gathered 151 player reviews, 89% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Casual category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $12. The pairing of developer LazyCnD with publisher LazyCnD is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Casual projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 4,000 to 10,000 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, Novice Dungeon Master can be compared against similar Casual titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
151
Positive
89%
Steam appid
2886090
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.04K to 10K
units (median: 7K)
≈ $28K to $65K modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2024 | 0 |
| price_$12 | 0 |
| positive_89% | +10 |
| genre_Casual | -15 |
| 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 Novice Dungeon Master at roughly 4,000 to 10,000 copies, with a median around 7,000, derived from its 151 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $47K 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
13 observed days · window low $11.99Across 13 observed UTC days from 2026-07-17 to 2026-09-07, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $11.99 to $11.99. The tracked-window low was $11.99 on 2026-07-17.
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
- Fanatical
- Humble Store
- GOG.com
Latest tracked store observations (2026-09-07 06:54 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
Genres
CasualIndieRPGSimulationStrategyEarly Access
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Novice Dungeon Master sold?
- indielist estimates Novice Dungeon Master has sold between 4,077 and 9,513 units (median 6,795), derived from its 151 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Novice Dungeon Master?
- Novice Dungeon Master was developed by LazyCnD and published by LazyCnD.
- Who published Novice Dungeon Master?
- Novice Dungeon Master was published by LazyCnD, developed by LazyCnD. See LazyCnD's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was Novice Dungeon Master released?
- Novice Dungeon Master was released in 2024.
- How many reviews does Novice Dungeon Master have on Steam?
- Novice Dungeon Master has 151 Steam reviews, of which 89% are positive.
- Is Novice Dungeon Master worth playing?
- Steam players rate Novice Dungeon Master 89% positive across 151 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 Novice Dungeon Master can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Casual titles such as Garry's Mod, Wallpaper Engine, Factorio, Balatro, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, LazyCnD's other releases and LazyCnD's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Novice Dungeon Master 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 Novice Dungeon Master page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Casual 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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