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Story-rich RPG indie game DELTARUNE pairs pixel graphics, humor, and a soundtrack-focused presentation. Released in 2025 by developer and publisher tobyfox, it has 111,733 Steam reviews with 98% positive sentiment and an initial price of $24.99.
Overview
DELTARUNE is a 2025 Indie game developed by tobyfox and published by tobyfox. On Steam it has gathered 114,321 player reviews, 98% of them positive, which counts as a overwhelmingly positive reception among indie titles in the Indie category. The game is available on mac, windows, and launched at $25. The pairing of developer tobyfox with publisher tobyfox is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Indie projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 3.8 million to 8.8 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, DELTARUNE can be compared against similar Indie titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
114,321
Positive
98%
Steam appid
1671210
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
6,050
Fresh snapshot · · 24h peak 11,979
Sales estimate
v1.03.8M to 8.8M
units (median: 6.3M)
≈ $53.9M to $125.7M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2025 | -10 |
| price_$25 | +5 |
| positive_98% | +10 |
| final NB | 55 |
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 DELTARUNE at roughly 3.8 million to 8.8 million copies, with a median around 6.3 million, derived from its 114,321 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $89.8M 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
51 observed days · window low $19.99Across 51 observed UTC days from 2026-06-03 to 2026-07-24, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $19.99 to $24.99. The tracked-window low was $19.99 on 2026-06-26.
Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.
Where to buy
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- Green Man Gaming
- Fanatical
- Humble Store
- GOG.com
Latest tracked store observations (2026-07-24 06:13 UTC), cheapest first. Prices may have changed since observation. Some are affiliate links — we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. Learn more.
Platforms
macwindows
Tags
Story RichGreat SoundtrackPixel GraphicsFunnyRPGSingleplayerBullet Hell2DEmotionalComedyFantasyMusicSoundtrackAction RPGMysteryDarkEpisodicRetroJRPGSurreal
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has DELTARUNE sold?
- indielist estimates DELTARUNE has sold between 3,772,593 and 8,802,717 units (median 6,287,655), derived from its 114,321 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed DELTARUNE?
- DELTARUNE was developed by tobyfox and published by tobyfox.
- Who published DELTARUNE?
- DELTARUNE was published by tobyfox, developed by tobyfox. See tobyfox's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was DELTARUNE released?
- DELTARUNE was released in 2025.
- How many reviews does DELTARUNE have on Steam?
- DELTARUNE has 114,321 Steam reviews, of which 98% are positive.
- Is DELTARUNE worth playing?
- Steam players rate DELTARUNE 98% positive across 114,321 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 DELTARUNE can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Indie titles such as Undertale, Chained Echoes, Eastward, Sea of Stars: Sunset Edition, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, tobyfox's other releases and tobyfox's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where DELTARUNE 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 DELTARUNE page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Indie 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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- S
Sea of Stars: Sunset Edition
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- C
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