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Action indie game The Bleakest Keep launched in 2025 from developer and publisher cache-of-bones. It has 678 Steam reviews listed as 0% positive - mixed, with an initial budget price of $9.99.
Overview
The Bleakest Keep is a 2025 Action game developed by Cache of Bones and published by Cache of Bones. On Steam it has gathered 696 player reviews, 91% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $10. The pairing of developer Cache of Bones with publisher Cache of Bones 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 19,000 to 44,000 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 Bleakest Keep can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
696
Positive
91%
Steam appid
3231520
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.019K to 44K
units (median: 31K)
≈ $107K to $250K 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_91% | +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 The Bleakest Keep at roughly 19,000 to 44,000 copies, with a median around 31,000, derived from its 696 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $179K 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 $9.99Across 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.
Where to buy
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- Humble Store
- GOG.com
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Platforms
windows
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has The Bleakest Keep sold?
- indielist estimates The Bleakest Keep has sold between 18,792 and 43,848 units (median 31,320), derived from its 696 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed The Bleakest Keep?
- The Bleakest Keep was developed by Cache of Bones and published by Cache of Bones.
- Who published The Bleakest Keep?
- The Bleakest Keep was published by Cache of Bones, developed by Cache of Bones. See Cache of Bones's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was The Bleakest Keep released?
- The Bleakest Keep was released in 2025.
- How many reviews does The Bleakest Keep have on Steam?
- The Bleakest Keep has 696 Steam reviews, of which 91% are positive.
- Is The Bleakest Keep worth playing?
- Steam players rate The Bleakest Keep 91% positive across 696 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 The Bleakest Keep 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, Cache of Bones's other releases and Cache of Bones's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where The Bleakest Keep 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 Bleakest Keep 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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