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Action-focused indie game DeathSpank comes from Hothead Games, with Electronic Arts as publisher. Released in 2010, it has 699 Steam reviews marked mixed at 0% positive and an initial price of $14.99.
Overview
DeathSpank is a 2010 Action game developed by Hothead Games and published by Electronic Arts. On Steam it has gathered 705 player reviews, 95% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on mac, windows, and launched at $15. The pairing of developer Hothead Games with publisher Electronic Arts 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 38,000 to 89,000 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, DeathSpank can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
705
Positive
95%
Steam appid
18040
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.038K to 89K
units (median: 63K)
≈ $326K to $761K modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2010 | +30 |
| price_$15 | 0 |
| positive_95% | +10 |
| final NB | 90 |
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 DeathSpank at roughly 38,000 to 89,000 copies, with a median around 63,000, derived from its 705 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $543K 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
8 observed days · window low $14.99Across 8 observed UTC days from 2026-07-15 to 2026-07-22, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $14.99 to $14.99. The tracked-window low was $14.99 on 2026-07-15.
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
macwindows
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has DeathSpank sold?
- indielist estimates DeathSpank has sold between 38,070 and 88,830 units (median 63,450), derived from its 705 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed DeathSpank?
- DeathSpank was developed by Hothead Games and published by Electronic Arts.
- Who published DeathSpank?
- DeathSpank was published by Electronic Arts, developed by Hothead Games. See Electronic Arts's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was DeathSpank released?
- DeathSpank was released in 2010.
- How many reviews does DeathSpank have on Steam?
- DeathSpank has 705 Steam reviews, of which 95% are positive.
- Is DeathSpank worth playing?
- Steam players rate DeathSpank 95% positive across 705 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 DeathSpank 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, Hothead Games's other releases and Electronic Arts's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where DeathSpank 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 DeathSpank 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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