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Deadline Escape is an action game set for a 2026 release. This indie title, currently in Early Access, has garnered 284 Steam reviews. Its primary genre is Action, with additional tags including Adventure and Casual.
Overview
Deadline Escape is a 2026 Action game developed by DeadlineEscape and published by DeadlineEscape. On Steam it has gathered 391 player reviews, 86% 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 $5. The pairing of developer DeadlineEscape with publisher DeadlineEscape 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 7,000 to 16,000 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, Deadline Escape can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
391
Positive
86%
Steam appid
3872000
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
52
Historical snapshot ·
Sales estimate
v1.07K to 16K
units (median: 12K)
≈ $20K to $47K modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2026 | -10 |
| price_$5 | -20 |
| positive_86% | +10 |
| final NB | 30 |
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 Deadline Escape at roughly 7,000 to 16,000 copies, with a median around 12,000, derived from its 391 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $33K 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 $3.99Across 11 observed UTC days from 2026-05-31 to 2026-07-22, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $3.99 to $4.99. The tracked-window low was $3.99 on 2026-07-20.
Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.
Where to buy
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- GOG.com
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Platforms
windows
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Deadline Escape sold?
- indielist estimates Deadline Escape has sold between 7,038 and 16,422 units (median 11,730), derived from its 391 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Deadline Escape?
- Deadline Escape was developed by DeadlineEscape and published by DeadlineEscape.
- Who published Deadline Escape?
- Deadline Escape was published by DeadlineEscape, developed by DeadlineEscape. See DeadlineEscape's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was Deadline Escape released?
- Deadline Escape was released in 2026.
- How many reviews does Deadline Escape have on Steam?
- Deadline Escape has 391 Steam reviews, of which 86% are positive.
- Is Deadline Escape worth playing?
- Steam players rate Deadline Escape 86% positive across 391 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 Deadline Escape 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, DeadlineEscape's other releases and DeadlineEscape's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Deadline Escape 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 Deadline Escape 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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