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Action indie game VVVVVV launched in 2010 from developer and publisher Terry Cavanagh. It has 10,462 Steam reviews with 96% positive sentiment, and its $4.99 initial price positions it as a budget-priced indie release.
Overview
VVVVVV is a 2010 Action game developed by Terry Cavanagh and published by Terry Cavanagh. On Steam it has gathered 6,626 player reviews, 96% of them positive, which counts as a overwhelmingly positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on linux, mac, windows, and launched at $5. The pairing of developer Terry Cavanagh with publisher Terry Cavanagh 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 278,000 to 649,000 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, VVVVVV can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
6,626
Positive
96%
Steam appid
70300
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.0278K to 649K
units (median: 464K)
≈ $793K to $1.9M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2010 | +30 |
| price_$5 | -20 |
| positive_96% | +10 |
| final NB | 70 |
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 VVVVVV at roughly 278,000 to 649,000 copies, with a median around 464,000, derived from its 6,626 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $1.3M 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
41 observed days · window low $1.24Across 41 observed UTC days from 2026-06-12 to 2026-07-22, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $1.24 to $4.99. The tracked-window low was $1.24 on 2026-06-26.
Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.
Where to buy
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Platforms
linuxmacwindows
Genres
ActionIndie
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has VVVVVV sold?
- indielist estimates VVVVVV has sold between 278,292 and 649,348 units (median 463,820), derived from its 6,626 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed VVVVVV?
- VVVVVV was developed by Terry Cavanagh and published by Terry Cavanagh.
- Who published VVVVVV?
- VVVVVV was published by Terry Cavanagh, developed by Terry Cavanagh. See Terry Cavanagh's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was VVVVVV released?
- VVVVVV was released in 2010.
- How many reviews does VVVVVV have on Steam?
- VVVVVV has 6,626 Steam reviews, of which 96% are positive.
- Is VVVVVV worth playing?
- Steam players rate VVVVVV 96% positive across 6,626 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 VVVVVV 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, Terry Cavanagh's other releases and Terry Cavanagh's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where VVVVVV 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 VVVVVV 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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