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DSX is an action and adventure indie game released in 2022. It has garnered 7,705 positive reviews on Steam. The game is tagged as Action, Adventure, Indie, Simulation, and Utilities.
Overview
DSX is a 2022 Action game developed by Paliverse and published by Paliverse. On Steam it has gathered 8,252 player reviews, 69% of them positive, which counts as a mixed-to-positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $8. The pairing of developer Paliverse with publisher Paliverse 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 173,000 to 404,000 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, DSX can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
8,252
Positive
69%
Steam appid
1812620
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
8,204
Historical snapshot ·
Sales estimate
v1.0173K to 404K
units (median: 289K)
≈ $791K to $1.8M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2022 | 0 |
| price_$8 | -5 |
| positive_69% | -10 |
| final NB | 35 |
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 DSX at roughly 173,000 to 404,000 copies, with a median around 289,000, derived from its 8,252 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $1.3M 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
53 observed days · window low $6.39Across 53 observed UTC days from 2026-05-31 to 2026-07-22, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $6.39 to $7.99. The tracked-window low was $6.39 on 2026-06-26.
Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.
Where to buy
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- Green Man Gaming
- Fanatical
- Humble Store
- GOG.com
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Platforms
windows
Tags
SimulationIndieControllerUtilitiesSoftwareGaming
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has DSX sold?
- indielist estimates DSX has sold between 173,292 and 404,348 units (median 288,820), derived from its 8,252 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed DSX?
- DSX was developed by Paliverse and published by Paliverse.
- Who published DSX?
- DSX was published by Paliverse, developed by Paliverse. See Paliverse's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was DSX released?
- DSX was released in 2022.
- How many reviews does DSX have on Steam?
- DSX has 8,252 Steam reviews, of which 69% are positive.
- Is DSX worth playing?
- Steam players rate DSX 69% positive across 8,252 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 DSX can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Action titles such as Overcooked! 2, Crosshair X, KovaaK's, Project Wingman, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Paliverse's other releases and Paliverse's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where DSX 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 DSX 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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