How many copies has The Hex sold?

indielist estimates The Hex has sold between 187,026 and 436,394 units (median 311,710), derived from its 4,453 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.

Who published The Hex?

The Hex was published by Daniel Mullins Games, developed by Daniel Mullins Games. See Daniel Mullins Games's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.

How many reviews does The Hex have on Steam?

The Hex has 4,453 Steam reviews, of which 94% are positive.

Is The Hex worth playing?

Steam players rate The Hex 94% positive across 4,453 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.

The Hex

Oct 16, 2018 Indie $9.99

Developer Daniel Mullins Games Publisher Daniel Mullins Games

Profile updated Jun 2026

Indie game from Daniel Mullins Games, The Hex launched in 2018 as a self-published PC release. It has 4,421 Steam reviews listed as mixed, with an initial $9.99 budget price point.

The Hex is a 2018 Indie game developed by Daniel Mullins Games and published by Daniel Mullins Games. On Steam it has gathered 4,453 player reviews, 94% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Indie category. The game is available on linux, mac, windows, and launched at $10. The pairing of developer Daniel Mullins Games with publisher Daniel Mullins Games is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Indie projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 187,000 to 436,000 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, The Hex can be compared against similar Indie titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.

Reviews

4,453

Positive

94%

Steam appid

510420

Engine

Unknown

Players (snapshot)

Unavailable

Sales estimate

v1.0

187K to 436K

units (median: 312K)

≈ $1.1M to $2.5M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)

187K median 436K

+ How is this calculated?

4,453 reviews × NB(70) = 311,710 median units

Factor	Adjustment
base	+50
year_2018	+15
price_$10	-5
positive_94%	+10
final NB	70

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 The Hex at roughly 187,000 to 436,000 copies, with a median around 312,000, derived from its 4,453 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $1.8M 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 $9.99

Across 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.

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Platforms

linuxmacwindows

Genres

Indie

Frequently asked questions

How many copies has The Hex sold?: indielist estimates The Hex has sold between 187,026 and 436,394 units (median 311,710), derived from its 4,453 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
Who developed The Hex?: The Hex was developed by Daniel Mullins Games and published by Daniel Mullins Games.
Who published The Hex?: The Hex was published by Daniel Mullins Games, developed by Daniel Mullins Games. See Daniel Mullins Games's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
When was The Hex released?: The Hex was released in 2018.
How many reviews does The Hex have on Steam?: The Hex has 4,453 Steam reviews, of which 94% are positive.
Is The Hex worth playing?: Steam players rate The Hex 94% positive across 4,453 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 The Hex can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Indie titles such as Stardew Valley, Euro Truck Simulator 2, Project Zomboid, Undertale, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Daniel Mullins Games's other releases and Daniel Mullins Games's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where The Hex 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 The Hex page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Indie 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.