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Action indie game Slay the Minotaur launched in 2024 from cache-of-bones, with the same slug listed as developer and publisher. Its Steam page shows 203 reviews marked 0% positive / mixed, and the $4.99 initial price puts it in the budget tier.
Overview
Slay the Minotaur is a 2024 Action game developed by Cache of Bones and published by Cache of Bones. On Steam it has gathered 211 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 $5. The pairing of developer Cache of Bones with publisher Cache of Bones 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 5,000 to 12,000 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, Slay the Minotaur can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
211
Positive
92%
Steam appid
2510850
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.05K to 12K
units (median: 8K)
≈ $14K to $34K modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2024 | 0 |
| price_$5 | -20 |
| positive_92% | +10 |
| final NB | 40 |
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 Slay the Minotaur at roughly 5,000 to 12,000 copies, with a median around 8,000, derived from its 211 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $24K 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
14 observed days · window low $4.99Across 14 observed UTC days from 2026-07-15 to 2026-09-01, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $4.99 to $4.99. The tracked-window low was $4.99 on 2026-07-15.
Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.
Where to buy
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- GOG.com
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Platforms
windows
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Slay the Minotaur sold?
- indielist estimates Slay the Minotaur has sold between 5,064 and 11,816 units (median 8,440), derived from its 211 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Slay the Minotaur?
- Slay the Minotaur was developed by Cache of Bones and published by Cache of Bones.
- Who published Slay the Minotaur?
- Slay the Minotaur was published by Cache of Bones, developed by Cache of Bones. See Cache of Bones's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was Slay the Minotaur released?
- Slay the Minotaur was released in 2024.
- How many reviews does Slay the Minotaur have on Steam?
- Slay the Minotaur has 211 Steam reviews, of which 92% are positive.
- Is Slay the Minotaur worth playing?
- Steam players rate Slay the Minotaur 92% positive across 211 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 Slay the Minotaur 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, Cache of Bones's other releases and Cache of Bones's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Slay the Minotaur 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 Slay the Minotaur 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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