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Action roguelike platformer indie game built around Rogue-like runs and combat. Risk of Rain launched in 2013 from hopoo-games, published by gearbox-publishing, and has 29,811 Steam reviews with 93% positive. Its $9.99 price fits a budget action niche.
Overview
Risk of Rain (2013) is a 2013 Action game developed by Hopoo Games and published by Gearbox Publishing. On Steam it has gathered 29,811 player reviews, 93% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on linux, mac, windows, and launched at $10. The pairing of developer Hopoo Games with publisher Gearbox Publishing 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 1.5 million to 3.5 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, Risk of Rain (2013) can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
29,811
Positive
93%
Steam appid
248820
Engine
Unknown
Sales estimate
vv1.01.5M to 3.5M
units (median: 2.5M)
≈ $8.7M to $20.2M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2013 | +30 |
| price_$10 | -5 |
| positive_93% | +10 |
| final NB | 85 |
Confidence range: median × [0.6, 1.4]. Boundary protection: NB ∈ [15, 150].
Methodology & limitations
Sales estimates use a multi-factor Boxleiter method against public Steam review counts.
They are not authoritative sales data. Actual sales can deviate by
±50% in either direction. Free-to-play games, deeply discounted titles, and games
with heavy bundle distribution have larger error margins. Algorithm version
v1.0.
indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for Risk of Rain (2013) at roughly 1.5 million to 3.5 million copies, with a median around 2.5 million, derived from its 29,811 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $14.5M 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
90d · low $5.69Over the last 90 days the price ranged from $5.69 to $9.99, averaging $9.61 across 3 discount windows, with a historical low of $5.69 on 2026-03-27.
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Where to buy
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Platforms
linuxmacwindows
Tags
Action RoguelikeRogue-likeIndiePlatformerActionPixel GraphicsGreat SoundtrackOnline Co-OpDifficultPerma DeathCo-op2DLocal Co-OpRogue-liteMultiplayerSingleplayerRPGAddictiveReplay ValueSurvival
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Risk of Rain (2013) sold?
- indielist estimates Risk of Rain (2013) has sold between 1,520,361 and 3,547,509 units (median 2,533,935), derived from its 29,811 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter vv1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Risk of Rain (2013)?
- Risk of Rain (2013) was developed by Hopoo Games and published by Gearbox Publishing.
- When was Risk of Rain (2013) released?
- Risk of Rain (2013) was released in 2013.
- How many reviews does Risk of Rain (2013) have on Steam?
- Risk of Rain (2013) has 29,811 Steam reviews, of which 93% are positive.
Ecosystem
indielist positions Risk of Rain (2013) within the Action segment so players can surface comparable titles by shared tags and genre rather than by storefront promotion. On the developer side, Hopoo Games's other releases and Gearbox Publishing's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Risk of Rain (2013) 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 Risk of Rain (2013) 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.