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A 2025 indie game from hungry-couch-games, Drill Core has a clear Steam signal: 2,383 reviews with 85% positive, rated Very Positive. Published by tinybuild, it launched at $19.99, giving buyers a paid indie release to compare against peers.
Overview
Drill Core is a 2025 Indie game developed by Hungry Couch Games and published by tinyBuild. On Steam it has gathered 2,099 player reviews, 85% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Indie category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $20. The pairing of developer Hungry Couch Games with publisher tinyBuild 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 63,000 to 147,000 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, Drill Core can be compared against similar Indie titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
2,099
Positive
85%
Steam appid
2821800
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.063K to 147K
units (median: 105K)
≈ $719K to $1.7M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2025 | -10 |
| price_$20 | 0 |
| positive_85% | +10 |
| final NB | 50 |
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 Drill Core at roughly 63,000 to 147,000 copies, with a median around 105,000, derived from its 2,099 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $1.2M 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
9 observed days · window low $13.99Across 9 observed UTC days from 2026-06-09 to 2026-07-22, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $13.99 to $19.99. The tracked-window low was $13.99 on 2026-06-09.
Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.
Where to buy
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Platforms
windows
Genres
IndieStrategy
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Drill Core sold?
- indielist estimates Drill Core has sold between 62,970 and 146,930 units (median 104,950), derived from its 2,099 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Drill Core?
- Drill Core was developed by Hungry Couch Games and published by tinyBuild.
- Who published Drill Core?
- Drill Core was published by tinyBuild, developed by Hungry Couch Games. See tinyBuild's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was Drill Core released?
- Drill Core was released in 2025.
- How many reviews does Drill Core have on Steam?
- Drill Core has 2,099 Steam reviews, of which 85% are positive.
- Is Drill Core worth playing?
- Steam players rate Drill Core 85% positive across 2,099 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 Drill Core 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, Hungry Couch Games's other releases and tinyBuild's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Drill Core 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 Drill Core 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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