How many copies has Spectromancer sold?

indielist estimates Spectromancer has sold between 17,034 and 39,746 units (median 28,390), derived from its 334 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.

Who developed Spectromancer?

Spectromancer was developed by Apus Software and published by Three Donkeys LLC.

Who published Spectromancer?

Spectromancer was published by Three Donkeys LLC, developed by Apus Software. See Three Donkeys LLC's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.

When was Spectromancer released?

Spectromancer was released in 2009.

How many reviews does Spectromancer have on Steam?

Spectromancer has 334 Steam reviews, of which 88% are positive.

Is Spectromancer worth playing?

Steam players rate Spectromancer 88% positive across 334 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.

Spectromancer

Feb 11, 2009 Indie $6.99

Developer Apus Software Publisher Three Donkeys LLC

Profile updated Jul 2026

Indie game buyers looking at Spectromancer will find a 2009 release from apus-software, published by three-donkeys-llc. Its Steam footprint is modest but strong, with 377 reviews and 88% positive sentiment, while the $6.99 initial price fits a budget purchase.

Spectromancer is a 2009 Indie game developed by Apus Software and published by Three Donkeys LLC. On Steam it has gathered 334 player reviews, 88% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Indie category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $7. The pairing of developer Apus Software with publisher Three Donkeys LLC is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Indie projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 17,000 to 40,000 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, Spectromancer can be compared against similar Indie titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.

Reviews

334

Positive

88%

Steam appid

22500

Engine

Unknown

Players (snapshot)

Unavailable

Sales estimate

v1.0

17K to 40K

units (median: 28K)

≈ $68K to $159K modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)

17K median 40K

+ How is this calculated?

334 reviews × NB(85) = 28,390 median units

Factor	Adjustment
base	+50
year_2009	+30
price_$7	-5
positive_88%	+10
final NB	85

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 Spectromancer at roughly 17,000 to 40,000 copies, with a median around 28,000, derived from its 334 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $113K 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

10 observed days · window low $6.99

Across 10 observed UTC days from 2026-07-20 to 2026-09-06, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $6.99 to $6.99. The tracked-window low was $6.99 on 2026-07-20.

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

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Platforms

windows

Genres

IndieStrategy

Frequently asked questions

How many copies has Spectromancer sold?: indielist estimates Spectromancer has sold between 17,034 and 39,746 units (median 28,390), derived from its 334 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
Who developed Spectromancer?: Spectromancer was developed by Apus Software and published by Three Donkeys LLC.
Who published Spectromancer?: Spectromancer was published by Three Donkeys LLC, developed by Apus Software. See Three Donkeys LLC's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
When was Spectromancer released?: Spectromancer was released in 2009.
How many reviews does Spectromancer have on Steam?: Spectromancer has 334 Steam reviews, of which 88% are positive.
Is Spectromancer worth playing?: Steam players rate Spectromancer 88% positive across 334 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 Spectromancer can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Indie titles such as Stardew Valley, Euro Truck Simulator 2, Project Zomboid, Undertale, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Apus Software's other releases and Three Donkeys LLC's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Spectromancer 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 Spectromancer page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Indie 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.