Monster Sanctuary

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Monster Sanctuary

Short description

Monster taming meets metroidvania. Collect, train and battle monsters in a lovely side-scroller pixel world.

Developer
moi rai games
Publisher
Team17
Release
Tue, Dec 08, 2020
Price
$19.99
$4.99
75%
best price ever
Reviews
10,448
Positive
91%
Followers
49,247
Owners (estimated)
500K – 1M
Concurrent players
166
Genres
Action, Adventure, Indie, RPG, Strategy
Features
Multi-player, PvP, Online PvP, Full controller support, Steam Trading Cards, Gamepad Recommended, DualShock Controller Support, DualSense Controller Support, Steam Leaderboards, Remote Play on Phone, Remote Play on Tablet
Tags
Creature Collector Pixel Graphics Metroidvania Turn-Based Tactics Singleplayer Turn-Based Combat Exploration Fantasy Adventure JRPG RPG 2D Strategy PvP Difficult Indie Story Rich Turn-Based Platformer Side Scroller
Revenue (estimated, gross)~$8.3msomewhere between $8.3m and $13.9m · roughly 500K–836K copies

Review count and SteamSpy's owner range agree well enough to narrow the estimate down to this band. Multiplied by $16.62, the average price these copies actually sold for — weighted from the price history rather than taken from the $19.99 launch price. That is 17% below list price on average. Before Steam's cut, VAT and refunds. How these numbers are calculated.

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History

84 data points since Aug 7, 2026. Gaps mean nothing changed — the value carries forward.

Revenue (est.) ~$8.3m → ~$8.3m
Reviews 10,339 → 10,448
Followers 49,064 → 49,247
Concurrent players 166 → 166
Price $4.99 → $4.99
Positive reviews 91.5% → 91.4%

The revenue curve is an estimate, not a measurement. It is the only calculated series here: each interval takes the review growth of that period, multiplies it by the sales-per-review factor and by the price actually charged at the time, and adds the result to the running total. That is why it climbs more slowly through discount periods than the review curve next to it. The last point is the same figure quoted above — gross, before Steam's cut, VAT and refunds. How these numbers are calculated.

The blurred area is the rest of the history. 213 further data points reach back to Aug 1, 2019 — your plan shows the last 90 days of it. How far each series in particular reaches is written on its own chart; not every one of them goes back that far. The shape in the blurred area is decoration, not data: the figures are not in this page at all. Plus unlocks the complete series.

Lowest recorded price: $4.99 on Nov 7, 2023. That is the current price.

How crowded is this niche?

How full the niche around Monster Sanctuary is — measured on the tags it leads with, against every other combination on Steam.

±?? Creature Collector + Pixel Graphics + Metroidvania

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