How many copies has Recursed sold?

indielist estimates Recursed has sold between 35,967 and 83,923 units (median 59,945), derived from its 631 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.

Who developed Recursed?

Recursed was developed by Portponky and published by Shambles Software.

Who published Recursed?

Recursed was published by Shambles Software, developed by Portponky. See Shambles Software's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.

How many reviews does Recursed have on Steam?

Recursed has 631 Steam reviews, of which 97% are positive.

Is Recursed worth playing?

Steam players rate Recursed 97% positive across 631 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.

Recursed

Sep 30, 2016 Adventure $7.99

Developer Portponky Publisher Shambles Software

Profile updated Jul 2026

Adventure indie game Recursed offers a budget pick at $7.99. Released in 2016 by developer portponky and publisher Shambles Software, it has 657 Steam reviews with 97% positive, an overwhelmingly positive signal for a smaller catalog title.

Recursed is a 2016 Adventure game developed by Portponky and published by Shambles Software. On Steam it has gathered 631 player reviews, 97% of them positive, which counts as a overwhelmingly positive reception among indie titles in the Adventure category. The game is available on linux, mac, windows, and launched at $8. The pairing of developer Portponky with publisher Shambles Software is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Adventure projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 36,000 to 84,000 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, Recursed can be compared against similar Adventure titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.

Reviews

631

Positive

97%

Steam appid

497780

Engine

Unknown

Players (snapshot)

Unavailable

Sales estimate

v1.0

36K to 84K

units (median: 60K)

≈ $164K to $383K modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)

36K median 84K

+ How is this calculated?

631 reviews × NB(95) = 59,945 median units

Factor	Adjustment
base	+50
year_2016	+30
price_$8	-5
positive_97%	+10
genre_Adventure	+10
final NB	95

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 Recursed at roughly 36,000 to 84,000 copies, with a median around 60,000, derived from its 631 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $274K 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

12 observed days · window low $7.99

Across 12 observed UTC days from 2026-07-17 to 2026-09-02, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $7.99 to $7.99. The tracked-window low was $7.99 on 2026-07-17.

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

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Platforms

linuxmacwindows

Genres

AdventureIndie

Frequently asked questions

How many copies has Recursed sold?: indielist estimates Recursed has sold between 35,967 and 83,923 units (median 59,945), derived from its 631 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
Who developed Recursed?: Recursed was developed by Portponky and published by Shambles Software.
Who published Recursed?: Recursed was published by Shambles Software, developed by Portponky. See Shambles Software's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
When was Recursed released?: Recursed was released in 2016.
How many reviews does Recursed have on Steam?: Recursed has 631 Steam reviews, of which 97% are positive.
Is Recursed worth playing?: Steam players rate Recursed 97% positive across 631 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 Recursed can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Adventure titles such as Subnautica, Raft, Satisfactory, Human Fall Flat, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Portponky's other releases and Shambles Software's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Recursed 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 Recursed page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Adventure 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.