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Action indie game Retro Game Crunch launched in 2014 from developer rusty-moyher and publisher retro-game-crunch. It has 429 Steam reviews with 79% positive sentiment and an initial $9.99 price, positioning it as a budget action release.
Overview
Retro Game Crunch is a 2014 Action game developed by Rusty Moyher and published by Retro Game Crunch. On Steam it has gathered 280 player reviews, 79% of them positive, which counts as a mostly positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on mac, windows, and launched at $10. The pairing of developer Rusty Moyher with publisher Retro Game Crunch 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 13,000 to 29,000 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, Retro Game Crunch can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
280
Positive
79%
Steam appid
290040
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.013K to 29K
units (median: 21K)
≈ $72K to $168K modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2014 | +30 |
| price_$10 | -5 |
| positive_79% | 0 |
| 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 Retro Game Crunch at roughly 13,000 to 29,000 copies, with a median around 21,000, derived from its 280 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $120K 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 $2.99Across 8 observed UTC days from 2026-07-22 to 2026-09-06, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $2.99 to $9.99. The tracked-window low was $2.99 on 2026-07-22.
Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.
Where to buy
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Platforms
macwindows
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Retro Game Crunch sold?
- indielist estimates Retro Game Crunch has sold between 12,600 and 29,400 units (median 21,000), derived from its 280 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Retro Game Crunch?
- Retro Game Crunch was developed by Rusty Moyher and published by Retro Game Crunch.
- Who published Retro Game Crunch?
- Retro Game Crunch was published by Retro Game Crunch, developed by Rusty Moyher. See Retro Game Crunch's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was Retro Game Crunch released?
- Retro Game Crunch was released in 2014.
- How many reviews does Retro Game Crunch have on Steam?
- Retro Game Crunch has 280 Steam reviews, of which 79% are positive.
- Is Retro Game Crunch worth playing?
- Steam players rate Retro Game Crunch 79% positive across 280 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 Retro Game Crunch can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Action titles such as Terraria, Rust, Phasmophobia, The Forest, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Rusty Moyher's other releases and Retro Game Crunch's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Retro Game Crunch 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 Retro Game Crunch 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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