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Action indie game Heretic’s Fork launched in 2023 from developer 9fingergames and publisher Ravenage Games. With 4,043 Steam reviews at 85% positive and a $9.99 initial price, it fits a budget-friendly, well-reviewed pick.
Overview
Heretic's Fork is a 2023 Action game developed by 9FingerGames and published by Ravenage Games. On Steam it has gathered 3,076 player reviews, 85% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $10. The pairing of developer 9FingerGames with publisher Ravenage Games 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 102,000 to 237,000 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, Heretic's Fork can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
3,076
Positive
85%
Steam appid
2181610
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.0102K to 237K
units (median: 169K)
≈ $579K to $1.4M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2023 | 0 |
| price_$10 | -5 |
| positive_85% | +10 |
| final NB | 55 |
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 Heretic's Fork at roughly 102,000 to 237,000 copies, with a median around 169,000, derived from its 3,076 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $965K 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
12 observed days · window low $9.99Across 12 observed UTC days from 2026-06-09 to 2026-07-24, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $9.99 to $9.99. The tracked-window low was $9.99 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
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Heretic's Fork sold?
- indielist estimates Heretic's Fork has sold between 101,508 and 236,852 units (median 169,180), derived from its 3,076 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Heretic's Fork?
- Heretic's Fork was developed by 9FingerGames and published by Ravenage Games.
- Who published Heretic's Fork?
- Heretic's Fork was published by Ravenage Games, developed by 9FingerGames. See Ravenage Games's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was Heretic's Fork released?
- Heretic's Fork was released in 2023.
- How many reviews does Heretic's Fork have on Steam?
- Heretic's Fork has 3,076 Steam reviews, of which 85% are positive.
- Is Heretic's Fork worth playing?
- Steam players rate Heretic's Fork 85% positive across 3,076 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 Heretic's Fork 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, 9FingerGames's other releases and Ravenage Games's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Heretic's Fork 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 Heretic's Fork 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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