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Action indie game CRUEL launched in 2025 from james-dornan, who is listed as both developer and publisher. It has 1,696 Steam reviews marked 0% positive/mixed and an initial budget price of $9.99.
Overview
CRUEL is a 2025 Action game developed by James Dornan and published by James Dornan. On Steam it has gathered 1,763 player reviews, 95% of them positive, which counts as a overwhelmingly positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $10. The pairing of developer James Dornan with publisher James Dornan 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 48,000 to 111,000 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, CRUEL can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
1,763
Positive
95%
Steam appid
2689470
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.048K to 111K
units (median: 79K)
≈ $272K to $634K modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2025 | -10 |
| price_$10 | -5 |
| positive_95% | +10 |
| final NB | 45 |
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 CRUEL at roughly 48,000 to 111,000 copies, with a median around 79,000, derived from its 1,763 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $453K 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
9 observed days · window low $9.99Across 9 observed UTC days from 2026-07-15 to 2026-07-23, 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
Affiliate disclosure- Steam reference$9.99 Buy
- Green Man Gaming
- Fanatical
- Humble Store
- GOG.com
Latest tracked store observations (2026-07-23 05:51 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
windows
Genres
ActionIndie
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has CRUEL sold?
- indielist estimates CRUEL has sold between 47,601 and 111,069 units (median 79,335), derived from its 1,763 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed CRUEL?
- CRUEL was developed by James Dornan and published by James Dornan.
- Who published CRUEL?
- CRUEL was published by James Dornan, developed by James Dornan. See James Dornan's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was CRUEL released?
- CRUEL was released in 2025.
- How many reviews does CRUEL have on Steam?
- CRUEL has 1,763 Steam reviews, of which 95% are positive.
- Is CRUEL worth playing?
- Steam players rate CRUEL 95% positive across 1,763 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 CRUEL 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, James Dornan's other releases and James Dornan's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where CRUEL 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 CRUEL 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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