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Action indie game The Cave Diver launched in 2026 from ovsko, with the same slug listed for developer and publisher, indicating a self-published release. On Steam it has 108 reviews at 76% positive (Mostly Positive), and its $9.99 launch price puts it in the budget range.
Overview
The Cave Diver is a 2026 Action game developed by Ovsko and published by Ovsko. On Steam it has gathered 116 player reviews, 77% of them positive, which counts as a mostly positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $10. The pairing of developer Ovsko with publisher Ovsko 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 2,000 to 6,000 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, The Cave Diver can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
116
Positive
77%
Steam appid
3004390
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.02K to 6K
units (median: 4K)
≈ $14K to $32K modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2026 | -10 |
| price_$10 | -5 |
| positive_77% | 0 |
| final NB | 35 |
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 The Cave Diver at roughly 2,000 to 6,000 copies, with a median around 4,000, derived from its 116 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $23K 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
3 observed days · window low $8.99Across 3 observed UTC days from 2026-08-19 to 2026-09-02, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $8.99 to $9.99. The tracked-window low was $8.99 on 2026-08-19.
Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.
Where to buy
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- Green Man Gaming
- Fanatical
- Humble Store
- GOG.com
Latest tracked store observations (2026-09-02 06:48 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 The Cave Diver sold?
- indielist estimates The Cave Diver has sold between 2,436 and 5,684 units (median 4,060), derived from its 116 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed The Cave Diver?
- The Cave Diver was developed by Ovsko and published by Ovsko.
- Who published The Cave Diver?
- The Cave Diver was published by Ovsko, developed by Ovsko. See Ovsko's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was The Cave Diver released?
- The Cave Diver was released in 2026.
- How many reviews does The Cave Diver have on Steam?
- The Cave Diver has 116 Steam reviews, of which 77% are positive.
- Is The Cave Diver worth playing?
- Steam players rate The Cave Diver 77% positive across 116 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 The Cave Diver 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, Ovsko's other releases and Ovsko's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where The Cave Diver 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 The Cave Diver 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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