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The Demon Lord is New in Town!

Jan 24, 2022 Adventure $24.99
Developer Daijyobi Institute Publisher Kagura Games
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Adventure indie game The Demon Lord is New in Town! launched in 2022 from developer daijyobi-institute and publisher Kagura Games. Steam lists 118 reviews with a mixed 0% positive rating and an initial price of $24.99.

Overview

The Demon Lord is New in Town! is a 2022 Adventure game developed by Daijyobi Institute and published by Kagura Games. On Steam it has gathered 121 player reviews, 74% of them positive, which counts as a mixed-to-positive reception among indie titles in the Adventure category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $25. The pairing of developer Daijyobi Institute with publisher Kagura Games is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Adventure projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 5,000 to 11,000 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 Demon Lord is New in Town! can be compared against similar Adventure titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.

Reviews

121

Positive

74%

Steam appid

1413980

Engine

Unknown

Players (snapshot)

Unavailable

Sales estimate

v1.0

5K to 11K

units (median: 8K)

≈ $67K to $157K modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)

5K median 11K
+ How is this calculated?
121 reviews × NB(65) = 7,865 median units
Factor Adjustment
base +50
year_2022 0
price_$25 +5
positive_74% 0
genre_Adventure +10
final NB 65

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 Demon Lord is New in Town! at roughly 5,000 to 11,000 copies, with a median around 8,000, derived from its 121 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $112K 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 $9.99

Across 6 observed UTC days from 2026-09-18 to 2026-10-23, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $9.99 to $14.99. The tracked-window low was $9.99 on 2026-09-18.

$8 $12 $16 09-1809-2510-0210-0910-1610-23 2026-09-18: $9.99 2026-09-25: $9.99 2026-10-02: $9.99 2026-10-09: $14.99 2026-10-16: $14.99 2026-10-23: $14.99 2026-09-18: $9.99 (tracked-window low) 2026-09-25: $9.99 (tracked-window low) 2026-10-02: $9.99 (tracked-window low) 2026-10-09: $14.99 2026-10-16: $14.99 2026-10-23: $14.99 Tracked-window low: $9.99 on 2026-09-18

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

Where to buy

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Platforms

windows

Genres

AdventureIndieRPG

Frequently asked questions

How many copies has The Demon Lord is New in Town! sold?
indielist estimates The Demon Lord is New in Town! has sold between 4,719 and 11,011 units (median 7,865), derived from its 121 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
Who developed The Demon Lord is New in Town!?
The Demon Lord is New in Town! was developed by Daijyobi Institute and published by Kagura Games.
Who published The Demon Lord is New in Town!?
The Demon Lord is New in Town! was published by Kagura Games, developed by Daijyobi Institute. See Kagura Games's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
When was The Demon Lord is New in Town! released?
The Demon Lord is New in Town! was released in 2022.
How many reviews does The Demon Lord is New in Town! have on Steam?
The Demon Lord is New in Town! has 121 Steam reviews, of which 74% are positive.
Is The Demon Lord is New in Town! worth playing?
Steam players rate The Demon Lord is New in Town! 74% positive across 121 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 Demon Lord is New in Town! can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Adventure titles such as Subnautica, Raft, Satisfactory, Human Fall Flat, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Daijyobi Institute's other releases and Kagura Games's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where The Demon Lord is New in Town! 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 Demon Lord is New in Town! page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Adventure 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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