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Vampire Survivors (2022) is a bullet-heaven auto-battler with pixel graphics, self-published by developer poncle. It has 320,000 Steam reviews (97% positive) and launched at $4.99. The game strips down action-RPG mechanics to focus on character progression and enemy waves.
Overview
Vampire Survivors is a 2022 Action game developed by poncle and published by poncle. On Steam it has gathered 248,792 player reviews, 98% of them positive, which counts as a overwhelmingly positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on mac, windows, and launched at $5. The pairing of developer poncle with publisher poncle 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 model estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 6.0 million to 13.9 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, Vampire Survivors can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
248,792
Positive
98%
Steam appid
1794680
Engine
n/a
Sales estimate
vv1.06.0M to 13.9M
units (median: 10.0M)
≈ $17.0M to $39.7M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for Vampire Survivors at roughly 6.0 million to 13.9 million copies, with a median around 10.0 million, derived from its 248,792 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter model (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $28.4M 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 $2.52Over the last 90 days the price ranged from $2.52 to $4.99, averaging $4.70 across 3 discount windows, with a historical low of $2.52 on 2026-03-28.
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Where to buy
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- GOG.com
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Platforms
macwindows
Tags
Action RoguelikeBullet HellPixel GraphicsRogue-liteVampire2DIndieSingleplayerCasualArcadeActionRogue-likeRPGControllerRetroScore AttackLocal Co-OpDark FantasyAction RPG1980s
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Vampire Survivors sold?
- indielist estimates Vampire Survivors has sold between 5,971,008 and 13,932,352 units (median 9,951,680), derived from its 248,792 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter vv1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Vampire Survivors?
- Vampire Survivors was developed by poncle and published by poncle.
- When was Vampire Survivors released?
- Vampire Survivors was released in 2022.
- How many reviews does Vampire Survivors have on Steam?
- Vampire Survivors has 248,792 Steam reviews, of which 98% are positive.
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Vampire Survivors sold?
- indielist estimates Vampire Survivors has sold between 5,971,008 and 13,932,352 units (median 9,951,680), derived from its 248,792 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter vv1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Vampire Survivors?
- Vampire Survivors was developed by poncle and published by poncle.
- When was Vampire Survivors released?
- Vampire Survivors was released in 2022.
- How many reviews does Vampire Survivors have on Steam?
- Vampire Survivors has 248,792 Steam reviews, of which 98% are positive.
Ecosystem
Players looking for games like Vampire Survivors can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Action titles such as Dead Cells, Loop Hero, Stardew Valley, Hades, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, poncle's other releases and poncle's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Vampire Survivors 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 Vampire Survivors 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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