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Action indie game Impaler Gold launched in 2022 from developer apptivus and publisher retrovibe. It sits in the budget tier at $4.99, with 460 Steam reviews listed as mixed and 0% positive.
Overview
Impaler Gold is a 2022 Action game developed by Apptivus and published by Retrovibe. On Steam it has gathered 463 player reviews, 92% 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 $5. The pairing of developer Apptivus with publisher Retrovibe 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 11,000 to 26,000 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, Impaler Gold can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
463
Positive
92%
Steam appid
1573090
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.011K to 26K
units (median: 19K)
≈ $32K to $74K modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2022 | 0 |
| price_$5 | -20 |
| positive_92% | +10 |
| final NB | 40 |
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 Impaler Gold at roughly 11,000 to 26,000 copies, with a median around 19,000, derived from its 463 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $53K 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
8 observed days · window low $1.99Across 8 observed UTC days from 2026-07-15 to 2026-07-22, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $1.99 to $1.99. The tracked-window low was $1.99 on 2026-07-15.
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
ActionIndie
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Impaler Gold sold?
- indielist estimates Impaler Gold has sold between 11,112 and 25,928 units (median 18,520), derived from its 463 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Impaler Gold?
- Impaler Gold was developed by Apptivus and published by Retrovibe.
- Who published Impaler Gold?
- Impaler Gold was published by Retrovibe, developed by Apptivus. See Retrovibe's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was Impaler Gold released?
- Impaler Gold was released in 2022.
- How many reviews does Impaler Gold have on Steam?
- Impaler Gold has 463 Steam reviews, of which 92% are positive.
- Is Impaler Gold worth playing?
- Steam players rate Impaler Gold 92% positive across 463 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 Impaler Gold 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, Apptivus's other releases and Retrovibe's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Impaler Gold 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 Impaler Gold 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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