How many copies has Heat sold?

indielist estimates Heat has sold between 86,262 and 201,278 units (median 143,770), derived from its 2,614 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.

Heat was developed by Code}{atch and published by Code}{atch.

Heat was published by Code}{atch, developed by Code}{atch. See Code}{atch's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.

How many reviews does Heat have on Steam?

Heat has 2,614 Steam reviews, of which 49% are positive.

Is Heat worth playing?

Steam players rate Heat 49% positive across 2,614 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.

Heat

Jun 25, 2020 Action $19.99

Developer Code}{atch Publisher Code}{atch

Profile updated Jun 2026

Heat is an action indie game built around survival, Western open-world play, multiplayer, and an America-themed setting. Released in 2020 by developer/publisher code-atch, it has 2,930 Steam reviews at 49% positive, with an initial price of $19.99.

Heat is a 2020 Action game developed by Code}{atch and published by Code}{atch. On Steam it has gathered 2,614 player reviews, 49% of them positive, which counts as a mixed reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $20. The pairing of developer Code}{atch with publisher Code}{atch 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 86,000 to 201,000 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, Heat can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.

Reviews

2,614

Positive

49%

Steam appid

656240

Engine

Unknown

Players (snapshot)

Unavailable

Sales estimate

v1.0

86K to 201K

units (median: 144K)

≈ $985K to $2.3M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)

86K median 201K

+ How is this calculated?

2,614 reviews × NB(55) = 143,770 median units

Factor	Adjustment
base	+50
year_2020	+15
price_$20	0
positive_49%	-10
final NB	55

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 Heat at roughly 86,000 to 201,000 copies, with a median around 144,000, derived from its 2,614 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $1.6M 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

11 observed days · window low $4.99

Across 11 observed UTC days from 2026-06-08 to 2026-07-24, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $4.99 to $19.99. The tracked-window low was $4.99 on 2026-07-15.

Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.

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Platforms

windows

Frequently asked questions

How many copies has Heat sold?: indielist estimates Heat has sold between 86,262 and 201,278 units (median 143,770), derived from its 2,614 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
Who developed Heat?: Heat was developed by Code}{atch and published by Code}{atch.
Who published Heat?: Heat was published by Code}{atch, developed by Code}{atch. See Code}{atch's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
When was Heat released?: Heat was released in 2020.
How many reviews does Heat have on Steam?: Heat has 2,614 Steam reviews, of which 49% are positive.
Is Heat worth playing?: Steam players rate Heat 49% positive across 2,614 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.

Players looking for games like Heat can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Action titles such as SCUM, Rust, ARK: Survival Evolved, The Forest, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Code}{atch's other releases and Code}{atch's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Heat 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 Heat 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.

Matched from shared Steam tags and primary genre. Review count breaks ties; it is not a personal recommendation score.