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As an indie game, The Deer God comes from Crescent Moon Games, which is listed as both developer and publisher. It launched in 2015 at $14.99 and has 226 Steam reviews marked mixed, giving buyers a modest public signal to weigh.
Overview
The Deer God is a 2015 Indie game developed by Crescent Moon Games and published by Crescent Moon Games. On Steam it has gathered 225 player reviews, 65% of them positive, which counts as a mixed reception among indie titles in the Indie category. The game is available on linux, mac, windows, and launched at $15. The pairing of developer Crescent Moon Games with publisher Crescent Moon Games 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 9,000 to 22,000 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 Deer God can be compared against similar Indie titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
225
Positive
65%
Steam appid
328940
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.09K to 22K
units (median: 16K)
≈ $81K to $189K modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2015 | +30 |
| price_$15 | 0 |
| positive_65% | -10 |
| final NB | 70 |
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 Deer God at roughly 9,000 to 22,000 copies, with a median around 16,000, derived from its 225 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $135K 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
6 observed days · window low $14.99Across 6 observed UTC days from 2026-09-12 to 2026-10-17, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $14.99 to $14.99. The tracked-window low was $14.99 on 2026-09-12.
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
linuxmacwindows
Genres
Indie
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has The Deer God sold?
- indielist estimates The Deer God has sold between 9,450 and 22,050 units (median 15,750), derived from its 225 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed The Deer God?
- The Deer God was developed by Crescent Moon Games and published by Crescent Moon Games.
- Who published The Deer God?
- The Deer God was published by Crescent Moon Games, developed by Crescent Moon Games. See Crescent Moon Games's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was The Deer God released?
- The Deer God was released in 2015.
- How many reviews does The Deer God have on Steam?
- The Deer God has 225 Steam reviews, of which 65% are positive.
- Is The Deer God worth playing?
- Steam players rate The Deer God 65% positive across 225 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 Deer God 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, Crescent Moon Games's other releases and Crescent Moon Games's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where The Deer God 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 Deer God 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.
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