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Despotism 3k sits in the indie game space with no listed engine or tag niche. Konfa Games both developed and published it in 2018, with 1,010 Steam reviews marked mixed and a listed launch price of $7.99, placing it in the budget range.
Overview
Despotism 3k is a 2018 Indie game developed by Konfa Games and published by Konfa Games. On Steam it has gathered 3,834 player reviews, 77% of them positive, which counts as a mostly positive reception among indie titles in the Indie category. The game is available on linux, mac, windows, and launched at $8. The pairing of developer Konfa Games with publisher Konfa Games 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 138,000 to 322,000 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, Despotism 3k can be compared against similar Indie titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
3,834
Positive
77%
Steam appid
699920
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.0138K to 322K
units (median: 230K)
≈ $630K to $1.5M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2018 | +15 |
| price_$8 | -5 |
| positive_77% | 0 |
| final NB | 60 |
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 Despotism 3k at roughly 138,000 to 322,000 copies, with a median around 230,000, derived from its 3,834 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $1.0M 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 $2.39Across 8 observed UTC days from 2026-07-15 to 2026-07-22, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $2.39 to $7.99. The tracked-window low was $2.39 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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- Green Man Gaming
- Fanatical
- Humble Store
- GOG.com
Latest tracked store observations (2026-07-22 13:39 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
linuxmacwindows
Genres
IndieSimulationStrategy
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Despotism 3k sold?
- indielist estimates Despotism 3k has sold between 138,024 and 322,056 units (median 230,040), derived from its 3,834 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Despotism 3k?
- Despotism 3k was developed by Konfa Games and published by Konfa Games.
- Who published Despotism 3k?
- Despotism 3k was published by Konfa Games, developed by Konfa Games. See Konfa Games's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was Despotism 3k released?
- Despotism 3k was released in 2018.
- How many reviews does Despotism 3k have on Steam?
- Despotism 3k has 3,834 Steam reviews, of which 77% are positive.
- Is Despotism 3k worth playing?
- Steam players rate Despotism 3k 77% positive across 3,834 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 Despotism 3k can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Indie titles such as Stardew Valley, Euro Truck Simulator 2, Project Zomboid, Undertale, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Konfa Games's other releases and Konfa Games's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Despotism 3k 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 Despotism 3k 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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