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Medieval action indie game with RPG progression, physics-driven combat, and action-adventure tags. Released in 2023 from developer shieldbearer-studios and publisher 505-pulse, The Bloodline has 3,849 Steam reviews at 83% positive and launched at $19.99.
Overview
The Bloodline is a 2023 Action game developed by Shieldbearer Studios and published by 505 Pulse. On Steam it has gathered 3,703 player reviews, 83% of them positive, which counts as a mostly positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $20. The pairing of developer Shieldbearer Studios with publisher 505 Pulse 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 111,000 to 259,000 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 Bloodline can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
3,703
Positive
83%
Steam appid
1159290
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.0111K to 259K
units (median: 185K)
≈ $1.3M to $3.0M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2023 | 0 |
| price_$20 | 0 |
| positive_83% | 0 |
| final NB | 50 |
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 Bloodline at roughly 111,000 to 259,000 copies, with a median around 185,000, derived from its 3,703 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $2.1M 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
17 observed days · window low $19.99Across 17 observed UTC days from 2026-06-03 to 2026-07-22, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $19.99 to $19.99. The tracked-window low was $19.99 on 2026-06-03.
Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.
Where to buy
Affiliate disclosure- Steam reference$19.99 Buy
- Green Man Gaming$19.99 Buy
- Humble Store$19.99 Buy
- Fanatical -10%$20.52 Buy
- GOG.com
Latest tracked store observations (2026-07-22 04:42 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
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has The Bloodline sold?
- indielist estimates The Bloodline has sold between 111,090 and 259,210 units (median 185,150), derived from its 3,703 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed The Bloodline?
- The Bloodline was developed by Shieldbearer Studios and published by 505 Pulse.
- Who published The Bloodline?
- The Bloodline was published by 505 Pulse, developed by Shieldbearer Studios. See 505 Pulse's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was The Bloodline released?
- The Bloodline was released in 2023.
- How many reviews does The Bloodline have on Steam?
- The Bloodline has 3,703 Steam reviews, of which 83% are positive.
- Is The Bloodline worth playing?
- Steam players rate The Bloodline 83% positive across 3,703 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 Bloodline can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Action titles such as Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord, Enshrouded, Blade and Sorcery, TerraTech, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Shieldbearer Studios's other releases and 505 Pulse's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where The Bloodline 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 Bloodline 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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