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Action indie game Lucius launched in 2012 from Shiver Games, which is listed as both developer and publisher. It has 10,846 Steam reviews at 81% positive, a mostly positive signal, and an initial budget price of $9.99.
Overview
Lucius is a 2012 Action game developed by Shiver Games and published by Shiver Games. On Steam it has gathered 10,876 player reviews, 81% of them positive, which counts as a mostly positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $10. The pairing of developer Shiver Games with publisher Shiver Games 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 489,000 to 1.1 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, Lucius can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
10,876
Positive
81%
Steam appid
218640
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.0489K to 1.1M
units (median: 816K)
≈ $2.8M to $6.5M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2012 | +30 |
| price_$10 | -5 |
| positive_81% | 0 |
| final NB | 75 |
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 Lucius at roughly 489,000 to 1.1 million copies, with a median around 816,000, derived from its 10,876 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $4.7M 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
29 observed days · window low $1.49Across 29 observed UTC days from 2026-06-24 to 2026-07-22, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $1.49 to $2.99. The tracked-window low was $1.49 on 2026-07-10.
Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.
Where to buy
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Platforms
windows
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Lucius sold?
- indielist estimates Lucius has sold between 489,420 and 1,141,980 units (median 815,700), derived from its 10,876 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Lucius?
- Lucius was developed by Shiver Games and published by Shiver Games.
- Who published Lucius?
- Lucius was published by Shiver Games, developed by Shiver Games. See Shiver Games's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was Lucius released?
- Lucius was released in 2012.
- How many reviews does Lucius have on Steam?
- Lucius has 10,876 Steam reviews, of which 81% are positive.
- Is Lucius worth playing?
- Steam players rate Lucius 81% positive across 10,876 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 Lucius can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Action titles such as Rust, Terraria, Phasmophobia, ARK: Survival Evolved, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Shiver Games's other releases and Shiver Games's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Lucius 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 Lucius 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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