How many copies has Nuclear Throne sold?

indielist estimates Nuclear Throne has sold between 1,063,314 and 2,481,066 units (median 1,772,190), derived from its 19,691 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.

Who developed Nuclear Throne?

Nuclear Throne was developed by Vlambeer and published by Vlambeer.

Who published Nuclear Throne?

Nuclear Throne was published by Vlambeer, developed by Vlambeer. See Vlambeer's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.

When was Nuclear Throne released?

Nuclear Throne was released in 2015.

How many reviews does Nuclear Throne have on Steam?

Nuclear Throne has 19,691 Steam reviews, of which 96% are positive.

Is Nuclear Throne worth playing?

Steam players rate Nuclear Throne 96% positive across 19,691 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.

Nuclear Throne

Dec 5, 2015 Action $11.99

Developer Vlambeer Publisher Vlambeer

Profile updated Jun 2026

Action roguelike play, pixel graphics, and high difficulty define Nuclear Throne’s core loop. The 2015 release has 19,568 Steam reviews with 96% positive sentiment and is listed as self-published by developer unknown at an initial price of $11.99.

Nuclear Throne is a 2015 Action game developed by Vlambeer and published by Vlambeer. On Steam it has gathered 19,691 player reviews, 96% of them positive, which counts as a overwhelmingly positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on linux, mac, windows, and launched at $12. The pairing of developer Vlambeer with publisher Vlambeer 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 1.1 million to 2.5 million 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, Nuclear Throne can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.

Reviews

19,691

Positive

96%

Steam appid

242680

Engine

Unknown

Players (snapshot)

Unavailable

Sales estimate

v1.0

1.1M to 2.5M

units (median: 1.8M)

≈ $7.3M to $17.0M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)

1.1M median 2.5M

+ How is this calculated?

19,691 reviews × NB(90) = 1,772,190 median units

Factor	Adjustment
base	+50
year_2015	+30
price_$12	0
positive_96%	+10
final NB	90

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 Nuclear Throne at roughly 1.1 million to 2.5 million copies, with a median around 1.8 million, derived from its 19,691 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $12.1M 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

45 observed days · window low $8.99

Across 45 observed UTC days from 2026-06-08 to 2026-07-22, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $8.99 to $11.99. The tracked-window low was $8.99 on 2026-06-08.

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Platforms

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Frequently asked questions

How many copies has Nuclear Throne sold?: indielist estimates Nuclear Throne has sold between 1,063,314 and 2,481,066 units (median 1,772,190), derived from its 19,691 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
Who developed Nuclear Throne?: Nuclear Throne was developed by Vlambeer and published by Vlambeer.
Who published Nuclear Throne?: Nuclear Throne was published by Vlambeer, developed by Vlambeer. See Vlambeer's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
When was Nuclear Throne released?: Nuclear Throne was released in 2015.
How many reviews does Nuclear Throne have on Steam?: Nuclear Throne has 19,691 Steam reviews, of which 96% are positive.
Is Nuclear Throne worth playing?: Steam players rate Nuclear Throne 96% positive across 19,691 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.

Players looking for games like Nuclear Throne can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Action titles such as Enter the Gungeon, The Binding of Isaac, Hero Siege, Risk of Rain (2013), ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Vlambeer's other releases and Vlambeer's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Nuclear Throne 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 Nuclear Throne 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.

Matched from shared Steam tags and primary genre. Review count breaks ties; it is not a personal recommendation score.