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Action-focused indie game Bleak Sword DX launched in 2023 from developer more8bit, with Devolver Digital as publisher. It has 606 Steam reviews marked mixed and an initial $9.99 price, positioning it as a budget action release.
Overview
Bleak Sword DX is a 2023 Action game developed by more8bit and published by Devolver Digital. On Steam it has gathered 627 player reviews, 78% 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 $10. The pairing of developer more8bit 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 17,000 to 40,000 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, Bleak Sword DX can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
627
Positive
78%
Steam appid
2193050
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.017K to 40K
units (median: 28K)
≈ $97K to $225K modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2023 | 0 |
| price_$10 | -5 |
| positive_78% | 0 |
| 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 Bleak Sword DX at roughly 17,000 to 40,000 copies, with a median around 28,000, derived from its 627 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $161K 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
9 observed days · window low $3.99Across 9 observed UTC days from 2026-07-15 to 2026-07-24, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $3.99 to $3.99. The tracked-window low was $3.99 on 2026-07-15.
Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.
Where to buy
Affiliate disclosure- GOG.com -60%$3.99 Buy
- Steam reference$9.99 Buy
- Green Man Gaming$9.99 Buy
- Fanatical$11.10 Buy
- Humble Store
Latest tracked store observations (2026-07-24 05:17 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 Bleak Sword DX sold?
- indielist estimates Bleak Sword DX has sold between 16,929 and 39,501 units (median 28,215), derived from its 627 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Bleak Sword DX?
- Bleak Sword DX was developed by more8bit and published by Devolver Digital.
- Who published Bleak Sword DX?
- Bleak Sword DX was published by Devolver Digital, developed by more8bit. See Devolver Digital's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was Bleak Sword DX released?
- Bleak Sword DX was released in 2023.
- How many reviews does Bleak Sword DX have on Steam?
- Bleak Sword DX has 627 Steam reviews, of which 78% are positive.
- Is Bleak Sword DX worth playing?
- Steam players rate Bleak Sword DX 78% positive across 627 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 Bleak Sword DX 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, more8bit's other releases and Devolver Digital's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Bleak Sword DX 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 Bleak Sword DX 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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