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Action indie game Sub Rosa comes from developer Cryptic Sea and publisher Devolver Digital. It released in 2021 at an initial price of $19.99, with 2,852 Steam reviews listed as mixed and 0% positive in the provided data.
Overview
Sub Rosa is a 2021 Action game developed by Cryptic Sea and published by Devolver Digital. On Steam it has gathered 2,860 player reviews, 69% of them positive, which counts as a mixed-to-positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on linux, windows, and launched at $20. The pairing of developer Cryptic Sea with publisher Devolver Digital 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 94,000 to 220,000 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, Sub Rosa can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
2,860
Positive
69%
Steam appid
272230
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.094K to 220K
units (median: 157K)
≈ $1.1M to $2.5M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2021 | +15 |
| price_$20 | 0 |
| positive_69% | -10 |
| final NB | 55 |
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 Sub Rosa at roughly 94,000 to 220,000 copies, with a median around 157,000, derived from its 2,860 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 $14.99Across 8 observed UTC days from 2026-07-15 to 2026-07-22, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $14.99 to $19.99. The tracked-window low was $14.99 on 2026-07-21.
Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.
Where to buy
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Platforms
linuxwindows
Genres
ActionIndieMassively MultiplayerEarly Access
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Sub Rosa sold?
- indielist estimates Sub Rosa has sold between 94,380 and 220,220 units (median 157,300), derived from its 2,860 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Sub Rosa?
- Sub Rosa was developed by Cryptic Sea and published by Devolver Digital.
- Who published Sub Rosa?
- Sub Rosa was published by Devolver Digital, developed by Cryptic Sea. See Devolver Digital's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was Sub Rosa released?
- Sub Rosa was released in 2021.
- How many reviews does Sub Rosa have on Steam?
- Sub Rosa has 2,860 Steam reviews, of which 69% are positive.
- Is Sub Rosa worth playing?
- Steam players rate Sub Rosa 69% positive across 2,860 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 Sub Rosa 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, Cryptic Sea's other releases and Devolver Digital's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Sub Rosa 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 Sub Rosa 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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