How many copies has That Dragon, Cancer sold?

indielist estimates That Dragon, Cancer has sold between 77,577 and 181,013 units (median 129,295), derived from its 1,361 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.

Who developed That Dragon, Cancer?

That Dragon, Cancer was developed by Numinous Games and published by Numinous Games.

Who published That Dragon, Cancer?

That Dragon, Cancer was published by Numinous Games, developed by Numinous Games. See Numinous Games's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.

When was That Dragon, Cancer released?

That Dragon, Cancer was released in 2016.

How many reviews does That Dragon, Cancer have on Steam?

That Dragon, Cancer has 1,361 Steam reviews, of which 90% are positive.

Is That Dragon, Cancer worth playing?

Steam players rate That Dragon, Cancer 90% positive across 1,361 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.

That Dragon, Cancer

Jan 11, 2016 Adventure $9.99

Developer Numinous Games Publisher Numinous Games

Profile updated Jul 2026

An adventure indie game from Numinous Games, That Dragon, Cancer launched in 2016 and is self-published by its developer. It has 1,546 Steam reviews with 90% positive sentiment and an initial $9.99 price point.

That Dragon, Cancer is a 2016 Adventure game developed by Numinous Games and published by Numinous Games. On Steam it has gathered 1,361 player reviews, 90% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Adventure category. The game is available on linux, mac, windows, and launched at $10. The pairing of developer Numinous Games with publisher Numinous Games 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 78,000 to 181,000 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, That Dragon, Cancer can be compared against similar Adventure titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.

Reviews

1,361

Positive

90%

Steam appid

419460

Engine

Unknown

Players (snapshot)

Unavailable

Sales estimate

v1.0

78K to 181K

units (median: 129K)

≈ $443K to $1.0M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)

78K median 181K

+ How is this calculated?

1,361 reviews × NB(95) = 129,295 median units

Factor	Adjustment
base	+50
year_2016	+30
price_$10	-5
positive_90%	+10
genre_Adventure	+10
final NB	95

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 That Dragon, Cancer at roughly 78,000 to 181,000 copies, with a median around 129,000, derived from its 1,361 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $738K 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

6 observed days · window low $9.99

Across 6 observed UTC days from 2026-07-17 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 2026-07-17.

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

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Platforms

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Genres

AdventureIndie

Frequently asked questions

How many copies has That Dragon, Cancer sold?: indielist estimates That Dragon, Cancer has sold between 77,577 and 181,013 units (median 129,295), derived from its 1,361 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
Who developed That Dragon, Cancer?: That Dragon, Cancer was developed by Numinous Games and published by Numinous Games.
Who published That Dragon, Cancer?: That Dragon, Cancer was published by Numinous Games, developed by Numinous Games. See Numinous Games's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
When was That Dragon, Cancer released?: That Dragon, Cancer was released in 2016.
How many reviews does That Dragon, Cancer have on Steam?: That Dragon, Cancer has 1,361 Steam reviews, of which 90% are positive.
Is That Dragon, Cancer worth playing?: Steam players rate That Dragon, Cancer 90% positive across 1,361 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 That Dragon, Cancer can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Adventure titles such as Subnautica, Raft, Satisfactory, Human Fall Flat, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Numinous Games's other releases and Numinous Games's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where That Dragon, Cancer 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 That Dragon, Cancer 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.