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Praetorians

Apr 11, 2014 Indie $4.99
Developer Pyro Studios Publisher Kalypso Media Digital
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An indie game from Pyro Studios, Praetorians offers a budget-priced option at $4.99. Published by Kalypso Media Digital in 2014, it has 704 Steam reviews with 81% positive, giving it a mostly positive and underrated profile.

Overview

Praetorians is a 2014 Indie game developed by Pyro Studios and published by Kalypso Media Digital. On Steam it has gathered 583 player reviews, 81% of them positive, which counts as a mostly positive reception among indie titles in the Indie category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $5. The pairing of developer Pyro Studios with publisher Kalypso Media Digital is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Indie projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 21,000 to 49,000 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, Praetorians can be compared against similar Indie titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.

Reviews

583

Positive

81%

Steam appid

277460

Engine

Unknown

Players (snapshot)

Unavailable

Sales estimate

v1.0

21K to 49K

units (median: 35K)

≈ $60K to $140K modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)

21K median 49K
+ How is this calculated?
583 reviews × NB(60) = 34,980 median units
Factor Adjustment
base +50
year_2014 +30
price_$5 -20
positive_81% 0
final NB 60

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 Praetorians at roughly 21,000 to 49,000 copies, with a median around 35,000, derived from its 583 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $100K 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

8 observed days · window low $2.24

Across 8 observed UTC days from 2026-07-22 to 2026-09-06, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $2.24 to $4.99. The tracked-window low was $2.24 on 2026-09-06.

$1 $4 $6 07-2207-2608-0908-1608-3009-06 2026-07-22: $2.49 2026-07-26: $2.49 2026-08-02: $4.99 2026-08-09: $2.49 2026-08-16: $2.49 2026-08-23: $2.49 2026-08-30: $2.49 2026-09-06: $2.24 2026-07-22: $2.49 2026-07-26: $2.49 2026-08-02: $4.99 2026-08-09: $2.49 2026-08-16: $2.49 2026-08-23: $2.49 2026-08-30: $2.49 2026-09-06: $2.24 (tracked-window low) Tracked-window low: $2.24 on 2026-09-06

Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.

Where to buy

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  • GOG.com -50%
    $2.49 Buy
  • Humble Store
    $4.99 Buy
  • Green Man Gaming
  • Fanatical

Latest tracked store observations (2026-09-06 06:43 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

IndieStrategy

Frequently asked questions

How many copies has Praetorians sold?
indielist estimates Praetorians has sold between 20,988 and 48,972 units (median 34,980), derived from its 583 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
Who developed Praetorians?
Praetorians was developed by Pyro Studios and published by Kalypso Media Digital.
Who published Praetorians?
Praetorians was published by Kalypso Media Digital, developed by Pyro Studios. See Kalypso Media Digital's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
When was Praetorians released?
Praetorians was released in 2014.
How many reviews does Praetorians have on Steam?
Praetorians has 583 Steam reviews, of which 81% are positive.
Is Praetorians worth playing?
Steam players rate Praetorians 81% positive across 583 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 Praetorians can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Indie titles such as Stardew Valley, Euro Truck Simulator 2, Project Zomboid, Undertale, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Pyro Studios's other releases and Kalypso Media Digital's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Praetorians 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 Praetorians page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Indie 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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