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Co-op card battler with rogue-like, rogue-lite, RPG, and adventure tags, developed by thing-trunk. Released in 2024 and published by skystone-games, HELLCARD has 4,605 Steam reviews with 86% positive sentiment and an initial price of $24.99.
Overview
HELLCARD is a 2024 Adventure game developed by Thing Trunk and published by Skystone Games. On Steam it has gathered 3,347 player reviews, 86% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Adventure category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $25. The pairing of developer Thing Trunk with publisher Skystone Games is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Adventure projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 151,000 to 351,000 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, HELLCARD can be compared against similar Adventure titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
3,347
Positive
86%
Steam appid
1201540
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.0151K to 351K
units (median: 251K)
≈ $2.1M to $5.0M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2024 | 0 |
| price_$25 | +5 |
| positive_86% | +10 |
| genre_Adventure | +10 |
| 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 HELLCARD at roughly 151,000 to 351,000 copies, with a median around 251,000, derived from its 3,347 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $3.6M 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
17 observed days · window low $24.99Across 17 observed UTC days from 2026-06-03 to 2026-07-22, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $24.99 to $24.99. The tracked-window low was $24.99 on 2026-06-03.
Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.
Where to buy
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Platforms
windows
Tags
Co-opRogue-likeCard BattlerRPGRogue-liteDeckbuildingTurn-Based CombatStrategyDifficultCo-op CampaignDungeon CrawlerTurn-BasedCard GameOnline Co-OpFantasyRoguelike DeckbuilderSingleplayerLocal Co-OpIsometricMultiplayer
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has HELLCARD sold?
- indielist estimates HELLCARD has sold between 150,615 and 351,435 units (median 251,025), derived from its 3,347 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed HELLCARD?
- HELLCARD was developed by Thing Trunk and published by Skystone Games.
- Who published HELLCARD?
- HELLCARD was published by Skystone Games, developed by Thing Trunk. See Skystone Games's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was HELLCARD released?
- HELLCARD was released in 2024.
- How many reviews does HELLCARD have on Steam?
- HELLCARD has 3,347 Steam reviews, of which 86% are positive.
- Is HELLCARD worth playing?
- Steam players rate HELLCARD 86% positive across 3,347 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 HELLCARD can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Adventure titles such as Across the Obelisk, Chrono Ark, Slay the Spire, For The King, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Thing Trunk's other releases and Skystone Games's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where HELLCARD 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 HELLCARD page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Adventure 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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