How many copies has Hellslave sold?

indielist estimates Hellslave has sold between 28,518 and 66,542 units (median 47,530), derived from its 679 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.

Who developed Hellslave?

Hellslave was developed by Ars Goetia and published by Dear Villagers.

Who published Hellslave?

Hellslave was published by Dear Villagers, developed by Ars Goetia. See Dear Villagers's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.

When was Hellslave released?

Hellslave was released in 2022.

How many reviews does Hellslave have on Steam?

Hellslave has 679 Steam reviews, of which 85% are positive.

Is Hellslave worth playing?

Steam players rate Hellslave 85% positive across 679 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.

Hellslave

May 26, 2022 Adventure $19.99

Developer Ars Goetia Publisher Dear Villagers

Profile updated Jun 2026

A dark fantasy adventure RPG with dungeon crawler structure, turn-based combat, and hand-drawn art. Released in 2022 by developer ars-goetia and publisher Dear Villagers, Hellslave has 3,245 Steam reviews at 85% positive and launched at $19.99.

Hellslave is a 2022 Adventure game developed by Ars Goetia and published by Dear Villagers. On Steam it has gathered 679 player reviews, 85% 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 $20. The pairing of developer Ars Goetia with publisher Dear Villagers 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 29,000 to 67,000 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, Hellslave can be compared against similar Adventure titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.

Reviews

679

Positive

85%

Steam appid

1608450

Engine

Unknown

Players (snapshot)

Unavailable

Sales estimate

v1.0

29K to 67K

units (median: 48K)

≈ $326K to $760K modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)

29K median 67K

+ How is this calculated?

679 reviews × NB(70) = 47,530 median units

Factor	Adjustment
base	+50
year_2022	0
price_$20	0
positive_85%	+10
genre_Adventure	+10
final NB	70

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 Hellslave at roughly 29,000 to 67,000 copies, with a median around 48,000, derived from its 679 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

15 observed days · window low $2.46

Across 15 observed UTC days from 2026-06-03 to 2026-07-22, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $2.46 to $2.46. The tracked-window low was $2.46 on 2026-06-03.

Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.

Where to buy

Affiliate disclosure

Humble Store -88%

$2.46 Buy
Fanatical -87%

$2.89 Buy
Steam reference -85%

$2.99 Buy
Green Man Gaming -85%

$2.99 Buy
GOG.com

$19.99 Buy

Latest tracked store observations (2026-07-22 04:53 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

windows

Frequently asked questions

How many copies has Hellslave sold?: indielist estimates Hellslave has sold between 28,518 and 66,542 units (median 47,530), derived from its 679 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
Who developed Hellslave?: Hellslave was developed by Ars Goetia and published by Dear Villagers.
Who published Hellslave?: Hellslave was published by Dear Villagers, developed by Ars Goetia. See Dear Villagers's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
When was Hellslave released?: Hellslave was released in 2022.
How many reviews does Hellslave have on Steam?: Hellslave has 679 Steam reviews, of which 85% are positive.
Is Hellslave worth playing?: Steam players rate Hellslave 85% positive across 679 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.

Players looking for games like Hellslave can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Adventure titles such as Fran Bow, Salt and Sanctuary, Tower of Babel: Survivors of Chaos, Sally Face - Episode One, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Ars Goetia's other releases and Dear Villagers's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Hellslave 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 Hellslave 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.

Matched from shared Steam tags and primary genre. Review count breaks ties; it is not a personal recommendation score.