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Action-focused Metroidvania with anime styling, bullet-hell patterns, a female protagonist, and pixel graphics. Released in 2016 by CreSpirit, which is also the publisher, it has 12,212 Steam reviews at 95% positive and an initial price of $17.99.
Overview
Rabi-Ribi is a 2016 Action game developed by CreSpirit and published by CreSpirit. On Steam it has gathered 10,751 player reviews, 95% of them positive, which counts as a overwhelmingly positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $18. The pairing of developer CreSpirit with publisher CreSpirit 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 581,000 to 1.4 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, Rabi-Ribi can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
10,751
Positive
95%
Steam appid
400910
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.0581K to 1.4M
units (median: 968K)
≈ $6.0M to $13.9M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2016 | +30 |
| price_$18 | 0 |
| positive_95% | +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 Rabi-Ribi at roughly 581,000 to 1.4 million copies, with a median around 968,000, derived from its 10,751 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $9.9M 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 $6.29Across 45 observed UTC days from 2026-06-08 to 2026-07-24, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $6.29 to $17.99. The tracked-window low was $6.29 on 2026-06-26.
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
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Platforms
windows
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Rabi-Ribi sold?
- indielist estimates Rabi-Ribi has sold between 580,554 and 1,354,626 units (median 967,590), derived from its 10,751 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Rabi-Ribi?
- Rabi-Ribi was developed by CreSpirit and published by CreSpirit.
- Who published Rabi-Ribi?
- Rabi-Ribi was published by CreSpirit, developed by CreSpirit. See CreSpirit's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was Rabi-Ribi released?
- Rabi-Ribi was released in 2016.
- How many reviews does Rabi-Ribi have on Steam?
- Rabi-Ribi has 10,751 Steam reviews, of which 95% are positive.
- Is Rabi-Ribi worth playing?
- Steam players rate Rabi-Ribi 95% positive across 10,751 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 Rabi-Ribi can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Action titles such as Touhou Luna Nights, Skul: The Hero Slayer, Celeste, Touhou Hero of Ice Fairy, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, CreSpirit's other releases and CreSpirit's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Rabi-Ribi 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 Rabi-Ribi 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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- H
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Shared tags: Metroidvania, Platformer, 2D
- R
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