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Sifu is an action game released in 2023. It has garnered 19,910 reviews on Steam. The initial price was $39.99.
Overview
Sifu is a 2023 Action game developed by Sloclap and published by Sloclap. On Steam it has gathered 28,008 player reviews, 92% 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 $40. The pairing of developer Sloclap with publisher Sloclap 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 1.3 million to 2.9 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, Sifu can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
28,008
Positive
92%
Steam appid
2138710
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
465
Historical snapshot ·
Sales estimate
v1.01.3M to 2.9M
units (median: 2.1M)
≈ $28.8M to $67.2M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2023 | 0 |
| price_$40 | +15 |
| positive_92% | +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 Sifu at roughly 1.3 million to 2.9 million copies, with a median around 2.1 million, derived from its 28,008 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $48.0M 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
54 observed days · window low $8.90Across 54 observed UTC days from 2026-05-31 to 2026-07-24, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $8.90 to $39.99. The tracked-window low was $8.90 on 2026-06-20.
Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.
Where to buy
Affiliate disclosure- Steam reference -75%$9.99 Buy
- Humble Store$39.99 Buy
- Fanatical -10%$40.97 Buy
- Green Man Gaming
- GOG.com
Latest tracked store observations (2026-07-24 05:38 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
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Sifu sold?
- indielist estimates Sifu has sold between 1,260,360 and 2,940,840 units (median 2,100,600), derived from its 28,008 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Sifu?
- Sifu was developed by Sloclap and published by Sloclap.
- Who published Sifu?
- Sifu was published by Sloclap, developed by Sloclap. See Sloclap's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was Sifu released?
- Sifu was released in 2023.
- How many reviews does Sifu have on Steam?
- Sifu has 28,008 Steam reviews, of which 92% are positive.
- Is Sifu worth playing?
- Steam players rate Sifu 92% positive across 28,008 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 Sifu can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Action titles such as Dead Cells, Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice, Paint the Town Red, Skul: The Hero Slayer, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Sloclap's other releases and Sloclap's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Sifu 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 Sifu 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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