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Vindictus is a free-to-play action MMORPG featuring hack and slash combat. Released in 2012 by Nexon, it has garnered 7,981 Steam reviews with a 67% positive rating.
Overview
Vindictus is a 2012 Action game developed by NEXON and published by Nexon America Inc.. On Steam it has gathered 7,982 player reviews, 67% of them positive, which counts as a mixed-to-positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on windows, and is free to play. The pairing of developer NEXON with publisher Nexon America Inc. 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 335,000 to 782,000 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, Vindictus can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
7,982
Positive
67%
Steam appid
212160
Engine
Unknown
Sales estimate
vv1.0335K to 782K
units (median: 559K)
≈ $2.9M to $6.7M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2012 | +30 |
| price_$15 | 0 |
| positive_67% | -10 |
| final NB | 70 |
Confidence range: median × [0.6, 1.4]. Boundary protection: NB ∈ [15, 150].
Methodology & limitations
Sales estimates use a multi-factor Boxleiter method against public Steam review counts.
They are not authoritative sales data. Actual sales can deviate by
±50% in either direction. Free-to-play games, deeply discounted titles, and games
with heavy bundle distribution have larger error margins. Algorithm version
v1.0.
indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for Vindictus at roughly 335,000 to 782,000 copies, with a median around 559,000, derived from its 7,982 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $4.8M 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 $12.34Over the last 90 days the price ranged from $12.34 to $19.99, averaging $18.84 across 3 discount windows, with a historical low of $12.34 on 2026-04-03.
Synthetic series for demo. Real ITAD price history loads after Day 3 ingest.
Platforms
windows
Tags
Free to PlayHack and SlashMassively MultiplayerActionMMORPGRPGCharacter CustomizationNudityAdventureMultiplayerThird PersonCo-opAction RPGFantasyOpen WorldPvPSingleplayerViolentFast-PacedGore
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Vindictus sold?
- indielist estimates Vindictus has sold between 335,244 and 782,236 units (median 558,740), derived from its 7,982 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter vv1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Vindictus?
- Vindictus was developed by NEXON and published by Nexon America Inc..
- When was Vindictus released?
- Vindictus was released in 2012.
- How many reviews does Vindictus have on Steam?
- Vindictus has 7,982 Steam reviews, of which 67% are positive.
Ecosystem
indielist positions Vindictus within the Action segment so players can surface comparable titles by shared tags and genre rather than by storefront promotion. On the developer side, NEXON's other releases and Nexon America Inc.'s wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Vindictus 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 Vindictus 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.