How many copies has BLUE REVOLVER sold?

indielist estimates BLUE REVOLVER has sold between 44,064 and 102,816 units (median 73,440), derived from its 816 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.

Who developed BLUE REVOLVER?

BLUE REVOLVER was developed by danbo and published by Stellar Circle.

Who published BLUE REVOLVER?

BLUE REVOLVER was published by Stellar Circle, developed by danbo. See Stellar Circle's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.

When was BLUE REVOLVER released?

BLUE REVOLVER was released in 2016.

How many reviews does BLUE REVOLVER have on Steam?

BLUE REVOLVER has 816 Steam reviews, of which 98% are positive.

Is BLUE REVOLVER worth playing?

Steam players rate BLUE REVOLVER 98% positive across 816 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.

BLUE REVOLVER

Oct 11, 2016 Action $14.99

Developer danbo Publisher Stellar Circle

Profile updated Jul 2026

Bullet hell shoot 'em up action defines BLUE REVOLVER, an indie game in the arcade niche from developer danbo. Released in 2016 and published by stellar-circle, it has 794 Steam reviews marked mixed and launched at a $14.99 initial price.

BLUE REVOLVER is a 2016 Action game developed by danbo and published by Stellar Circle. On Steam it has gathered 816 player reviews, 98% 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 $15. The pairing of developer danbo with publisher Stellar Circle 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 44,000 to 103,000 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, BLUE REVOLVER can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.

Reviews

816

Positive

98%

Steam appid

439490

Engine

Unknown

Players (snapshot)

Unavailable

Sales estimate

v1.0

44K to 103K

units (median: 73K)

≈ $377K to $880K modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)

44K median 103K

+ How is this calculated?

816 reviews × NB(90) = 73,440 median units

Factor	Adjustment
base	+50
year_2016	+30
price_$15	0
positive_98%	+10
final NB	90

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 BLUE REVOLVER at roughly 44,000 to 103,000 copies, with a median around 73,000, derived from its 816 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $629K 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 $7.49

Across 9 observed UTC days from 2026-06-08 to 2026-07-22, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $7.49 to $14.99. The tracked-window low was $7.49 on 2026-06-08.

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

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Platforms

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Frequently asked questions

How many copies has BLUE REVOLVER sold?: indielist estimates BLUE REVOLVER has sold between 44,064 and 102,816 units (median 73,440), derived from its 816 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
Who developed BLUE REVOLVER?: BLUE REVOLVER was developed by danbo and published by Stellar Circle.
Who published BLUE REVOLVER?: BLUE REVOLVER was published by Stellar Circle, developed by danbo. See Stellar Circle's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
When was BLUE REVOLVER released?: BLUE REVOLVER was released in 2016.
How many reviews does BLUE REVOLVER have on Steam?: BLUE REVOLVER has 816 Steam reviews, of which 98% are positive.
Is BLUE REVOLVER worth playing?: Steam players rate BLUE REVOLVER 98% positive across 816 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 BLUE REVOLVER can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Action titles such as Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number, Hotline Miami, Nuclear Throne, CrossCode, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, danbo's other releases and Stellar Circle's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where BLUE REVOLVER 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 BLUE REVOLVER 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.