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Action indie game Christmas Massacre is a budget-priced 2021 release from Puppet Combo. It has 1,098 Steam reviews with 91% positive sentiment, a Very Positive signal for players looking for a low-cost indie action release at $7.99.
Overview
Christmas Massacre is a 2021 Action game developed by Puppet Combo and published by Puppet Combo. On Steam it has gathered 1,004 player reviews, 91% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $8. The pairing of developer Puppet Combo with publisher Puppet Combo 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 42,000 to 98,000 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, Christmas Massacre can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
1,004
Positive
91%
Steam appid
1840490
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.042K to 98K
units (median: 70K)
≈ $192K to $449K modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2021 | +15 |
| price_$8 | -5 |
| positive_91% | +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 Christmas Massacre at roughly 42,000 to 98,000 copies, with a median around 70,000, derived from its 1,004 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $321K 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
6 observed days · window low $7.99Across 6 observed UTC days from 2026-07-17 to 2026-07-22, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $7.99 to $7.99. The tracked-window low was $7.99 on 2026-07-17.
Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.
Where to buy
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Platforms
windows
Genres
ActionIndie
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Christmas Massacre sold?
- indielist estimates Christmas Massacre has sold between 42,168 and 98,392 units (median 70,280), derived from its 1,004 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Christmas Massacre?
- Christmas Massacre was developed by Puppet Combo and published by Puppet Combo.
- Who published Christmas Massacre?
- Christmas Massacre was published by Puppet Combo, developed by Puppet Combo. See Puppet Combo's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was Christmas Massacre released?
- Christmas Massacre was released in 2021.
- How many reviews does Christmas Massacre have on Steam?
- Christmas Massacre has 1,004 Steam reviews, of which 91% are positive.
- Is Christmas Massacre worth playing?
- Steam players rate Christmas Massacre 91% positive across 1,004 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 Christmas Massacre can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Action titles such as Terraria, Rust, ARK: Survival Evolved, Phasmophobia, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Puppet Combo's other releases and Puppet Combo's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Christmas Massacre 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 Christmas Massacre 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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