Profile updated
Action indie game Project Warlock launched in 2018 from developer Buckshot Software, with Retrovibe as publisher. It has 6,102 Steam reviews at 87% positive, signaling a well-reviewed release in the action niche, and an initial price of $12.00.
Overview
Project Warlock is a 2018 Action game developed by Buckshot Software and published by Retrovibe. On Steam it has gathered 4,636 player reviews, 87% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $12. The pairing of developer Buckshot Software with publisher Retrovibe 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 209,000 to 487,000 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, Project Warlock can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
4,636
Positive
87%
Steam appid
893680
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.0209K to 487K
units (median: 348K)
≈ $1.4M to $3.3M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2018 | +15 |
| price_$12 | 0 |
| positive_87% | +10 |
| final NB | 75 |
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 Project Warlock at roughly 209,000 to 487,000 copies, with a median around 348,000, derived from its 4,636 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $2.4M 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
21 observed days · window low $1.79Across 21 observed UTC days from 2026-06-09 to 2026-07-22, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $1.79 to $12.00. The tracked-window low was $1.79 on 2026-06-18.
Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.
Where to buy
Affiliate disclosure- GOG.com -85%$1.79 Buy
- Steam reference$12.00 Buy
- Green Man Gaming$12.00 Buy
- Fanatical
- Humble Store
Latest tracked store observations (2026-06-21 04:38 UTC to 2026-07-22 19:09 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
ActionIndie
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Project Warlock sold?
- indielist estimates Project Warlock has sold between 208,620 and 486,780 units (median 347,700), derived from its 4,636 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Project Warlock?
- Project Warlock was developed by Buckshot Software and published by Retrovibe.
- Who published Project Warlock?
- Project Warlock was published by Retrovibe, developed by Buckshot Software. See Retrovibe's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was Project Warlock released?
- Project Warlock was released in 2018.
- How many reviews does Project Warlock have on Steam?
- Project Warlock has 4,636 Steam reviews, of which 87% are positive.
- Is Project Warlock worth playing?
- Steam players rate Project Warlock 87% positive across 4,636 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 Project Warlock can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Action titles such as Rust, Terraria, Phasmophobia, ARK: Survival Evolved, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Buckshot Software's other releases and Retrovibe's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Project Warlock 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 Project Warlock 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.
You might also like
Matched from shared Steam tags and primary genre. Review count breaks ties; it is not a personal recommendation score.
See more games like Project Warlock →