How many copies has Nidhogg sold?

indielist estimates Nidhogg has sold between 290,343 and 677,467 units (median 483,905), derived from its 5,693 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.

Who developed Nidhogg?

Nidhogg was developed by Messhof and published by Messhof.

Who published Nidhogg?

Nidhogg was published by Messhof, developed by Messhof. See Messhof's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.

How many reviews does Nidhogg have on Steam?

Nidhogg has 5,693 Steam reviews, of which 90% are positive.

Is Nidhogg worth playing?

Steam players rate Nidhogg 90% positive across 5,693 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.

Nidhogg

Jan 13, 2014 Action $9.99

Developer Messhof Publisher Messhof

Profile updated Jun 2026

Messhof's 2014 action title Nidhogg offers local multiplayer swordplay. This self-published fighting game has garnered 7,847 Steam reviews with 90% positive feedback.

Nidhogg is a 2014 Action game developed by Messhof and published by Messhof. On Steam it has gathered 5,693 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 mac, windows, and launched at $10. The pairing of developer Messhof with publisher Messhof 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 290,000 to 677,000 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, Nidhogg can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.

Reviews

5,693

Positive

90%

Steam appid

94400

Engine

Unknown

Players (snapshot)

Unavailable

Sales estimate

v1.0

290K to 677K

units (median: 484K)

≈ $1.7M to $3.9M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)

290K median 677K

+ How is this calculated?

5,693 reviews × NB(85) = 483,905 median units

Factor	Adjustment
base	+50
year_2014	+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 Nidhogg at roughly 290,000 to 677,000 copies, with a median around 484,000, derived from its 5,693 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $2.8M 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

50 observed days · window low $3.49

Across 50 observed UTC days from 2026-06-04 to 2026-07-26, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $3.49 to $9.99. The tracked-window low was $3.49 on 2026-06-26.

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

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Platforms

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Frequently asked questions

How many copies has Nidhogg sold?: indielist estimates Nidhogg has sold between 290,343 and 677,467 units (median 483,905), derived from its 5,693 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
Who developed Nidhogg?: Nidhogg was developed by Messhof and published by Messhof.
Who published Nidhogg?: Nidhogg was published by Messhof, developed by Messhof. See Messhof's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
When was Nidhogg released?: Nidhogg was released in 2014.
How many reviews does Nidhogg have on Steam?: Nidhogg has 5,693 Steam reviews, of which 90% are positive.
Is Nidhogg worth playing?: Steam players rate Nidhogg 90% positive across 5,693 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 Nidhogg can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Action titles such as Stick Fight: The Game, Duck Game, SpeedRunners, Move or Die, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Messhof's other releases and Messhof's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Nidhogg 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 Nidhogg 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.

Matched from shared Steam tags and primary genre. Review count breaks ties; it is not a personal recommendation score.