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Action indie game Vangers offers a budget entry point at $6.99. Released in 2014 by k-d-lab and published by association-k-d-lab, it has 1,374 Steam reviews with 93% positive, giving it a very positive signal despite a modest review count.
Overview
Vangers is a 2014 Action game developed by K-D Lab and published by Association K-D Lab. On Steam it has gathered 1,156 player reviews, 93% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on linux, mac, windows, and launched at $7. The pairing of developer K-D Lab with publisher Association K-D Lab is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Action projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 59,000 to 138,000 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, Vangers can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
1,156
Positive
93%
Steam appid
264080
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.059K to 138K
units (median: 98K)
≈ $235K to $549K modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2014 | +30 |
| price_$7 | -5 |
| positive_93% | +10 |
| final NB | 85 |
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 Vangers at roughly 59,000 to 138,000 copies, with a median around 98,000, derived from its 1,156 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $392K 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
7 observed days · window low $5.99Across 7 observed UTC days from 2026-07-17 to 2026-07-24, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $5.99 to $5.99. The tracked-window low was $5.99 on 2026-07-17.
Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.
Where to buy
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Platforms
linuxmacwindows
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Vangers sold?
- indielist estimates Vangers has sold between 58,956 and 137,564 units (median 98,260), derived from its 1,156 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Vangers?
- Vangers was developed by K-D Lab and published by Association K-D Lab.
- Who published Vangers?
- Vangers was published by Association K-D Lab, developed by K-D Lab. See Association K-D Lab's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was Vangers released?
- Vangers was released in 2014.
- How many reviews does Vangers have on Steam?
- Vangers has 1,156 Steam reviews, of which 93% are positive.
- Is Vangers worth playing?
- Steam players rate Vangers 93% positive across 1,156 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 Vangers can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Action titles such as Rust, Terraria, Phasmophobia, ARK: Survival Evolved, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, K-D Lab's other releases and Association K-D Lab's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Vangers 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 Vangers page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Action 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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