The Horror Of Salazar House
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Adventure indie game The Horror Of Salazar House offers a low-cost horror-leaning option at $3.99. Released in 2020 by developer maldo19 and published by torture-star-video, it has 388 Steam reviews with 94% positive, a strong signal for a small catalog title.
Overview
The Horror Of Salazar House is a 2020 Adventure game developed by Maldo19 and published by Torture Star Video. On Steam it has gathered 319 player reviews, 94% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Adventure category. The game is available on linux, windows, and launched at $4. The pairing of developer Maldo19 with publisher Torture Star Video 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 12,000 to 29,000 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 Horror Of Salazar House can be compared against similar Adventure titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
319
Positive
94%
Steam appid
1405440
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.012K to 29K
units (median: 21K)
≈ $28K to $66K modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2020 | +15 |
| price_$4 | -20 |
| positive_94% | +10 |
| 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 Horror Of Salazar House at roughly 12,000 to 29,000 copies, with a median around 21,000, derived from its 319 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $47K 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
12 observed days · window low $3.99Across 12 observed UTC days from 2026-07-17 to 2026-09-03, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $3.99 to $3.99. The tracked-window low was $3.99 on 2026-07-17.
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
linuxwindows
Genres
AdventureIndie
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has The Horror Of Salazar House sold?
- indielist estimates The Horror Of Salazar House has sold between 12,441 and 29,029 units (median 20,735), derived from its 319 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed The Horror Of Salazar House?
- The Horror Of Salazar House was developed by Maldo19 and published by Torture Star Video.
- Who published The Horror Of Salazar House?
- The Horror Of Salazar House was published by Torture Star Video, developed by Maldo19. See Torture Star Video's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was The Horror Of Salazar House released?
- The Horror Of Salazar House was released in 2020.
- How many reviews does The Horror Of Salazar House have on Steam?
- The Horror Of Salazar House has 319 Steam reviews, of which 94% are positive.
- Is The Horror Of Salazar House worth playing?
- Steam players rate The Horror Of Salazar House 94% positive across 319 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 Horror Of Salazar House 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, Maldo19's other releases and Torture Star Video's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where The Horror Of Salazar House 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 Horror Of Salazar House 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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