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Indie genre positioning anchors Spelunky, with no tags listed in the provided data. The 2013 release has 14,595 Steam reviews marked 0% positive and mixed, and it is self-published by an unknown developer. Initial price is $14.99.
Overview
Spelunky is a 2013 Indie game developed by Mossmouth and published by Mossmouth. On Steam it has gathered 16,597 player reviews, 92% 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 $15. The pairing of developer Mossmouth with publisher Mossmouth 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 896,000 to 2.1 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, Spelunky can be compared against similar Indie titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
16,597
Positive
92%
Steam appid
239350
Engine
Unknown
Sales estimate
vv1.0896K to 2.1M
units (median: 1.5M)
≈ $7.7M to $17.9M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2013 | +30 |
| price_$15 | 0 |
| positive_92% | +10 |
| final NB | 90 |
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 Spelunky at roughly 896,000 to 2.1 million copies, with a median around 1.5 million, derived from its 16,597 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $12.8M 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 $8.36Over the last 90 days the price ranged from $8.36 to $14.99, averaging $13.83 across 3 discount windows, with a historical low of $8.36 on 2026-06-04.
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Platforms
windows
Tags
PlatformerRogue-likeAction RoguelikeIndieDifficult2DLocal Co-OpReplay ValueProcedural GenerationArcadeAddictiveActionPerma DeathSingleplayerAdventureCo-opGreat SoundtrackLocal MultiplayerControllerSide Scroller
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Spelunky sold?
- indielist estimates Spelunky has sold between 896,238 and 2,091,222 units (median 1,493,730), derived from its 16,597 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter vv1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Spelunky?
- Spelunky was developed by Mossmouth and published by Mossmouth.
- When was Spelunky released?
- Spelunky was released in 2013.
- How many reviews does Spelunky have on Steam?
- Spelunky has 16,597 Steam reviews, of which 92% are positive.
Ecosystem
indielist positions Spelunky within the Indie segment so players can surface comparable titles by shared tags and genre rather than by storefront promotion. On the developer side, Mossmouth's other releases and Mossmouth's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Spelunky 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 Spelunky 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.