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Action-focused indie game Shank comes from Klei Entertainment, which is listed as both developer and publisher. Released in 2010, it has 2,976 Steam reviews marked Mixed and an initial price of $9.99, placing it in the budget action game range.
Overview
Shank is a 2010 Action game developed by Klei Entertainment and published by Klei Entertainment. On Steam it has gathered 3,004 player reviews, 90% 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 $10. The pairing of developer Klei Entertainment with publisher Klei Entertainment 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 153,000 to 357,000 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, Shank can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
3,004
Positive
90%
Steam appid
6120
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.0153K to 357K
units (median: 255K)
≈ $874K to $2.0M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2010 | +30 |
| price_$10 | -5 |
| positive_90% | +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 Shank at roughly 153,000 to 357,000 copies, with a median around 255,000, derived from its 3,004 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $1.5M 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 $9.99Across 8 observed UTC days from 2026-07-15 to 2026-07-22, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $9.99 to $9.99. The tracked-window low was $9.99 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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- Green Man Gaming
- Fanatical
- Humble Store
- GOG.com
Latest tracked store observations (2026-07-22 13:44 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
linuxmacwindows
Genres
ActionIndie
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Shank sold?
- indielist estimates Shank has sold between 153,204 and 357,476 units (median 255,340), derived from its 3,004 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Shank?
- Shank was developed by Klei Entertainment and published by Klei Entertainment.
- Who published Shank?
- Shank was published by Klei Entertainment, developed by Klei Entertainment. See Klei Entertainment's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was Shank released?
- Shank was released in 2010.
- How many reviews does Shank have on Steam?
- Shank has 3,004 Steam reviews, of which 90% are positive.
- Is Shank worth playing?
- Steam players rate Shank 90% positive across 3,004 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 Shank 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, Klei Entertainment's other releases and Klei Entertainment's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Shank 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 Shank 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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