How many copies has Hard Time III sold?

indielist estimates Hard Time III has sold between 32,580 and 76,020 units (median 54,300), derived from its 905 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.

Who developed Hard Time III?

Hard Time III was developed by MDickie and published by MDickie.

Who published Hard Time III?

Hard Time III was published by MDickie, developed by MDickie. See MDickie's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.

When was Hard Time III released?

Hard Time III was released in 2024.

How many reviews does Hard Time III have on Steam?

Hard Time III has 905 Steam reviews, of which 85% are positive.

Is Hard Time III worth playing?

Steam players rate Hard Time III 85% positive across 905 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.

Hard Time III

Sep 9, 2024 Action $14.99

Developer MDickie Publisher MDickie

Profile updated Jun 2026

Action indie game Hard Time III comes from mdickie, with the same slug listed for developer and publisher. It launched in 2024 at $14.99 and has 870 Steam reviews marked mixed, giving buyers a concrete read on its current reception.

Hard Time III is a 2024 Action game developed by MDickie and published by MDickie. On Steam it has gathered 905 player reviews, 85% 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 $15. The pairing of developer MDickie with publisher MDickie 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 33,000 to 76,000 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, Hard Time III can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.

Reviews

905

Positive

85%

Steam appid

3009850

Engine

Unknown

Players (snapshot)

Unavailable

Sales estimate

v1.0

33K to 76K

units (median: 54K)

≈ $279K to $651K modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)

33K median 76K

+ How is this calculated?

905 reviews × NB(60) = 54,300 median units

Factor	Adjustment
base	+50
year_2024	0
price_$15	0
positive_85%	+10
final NB	60

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 Hard Time III at roughly 33,000 to 76,000 copies, with a median around 54,000, derived from its 905 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $465K 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

8 observed days · window low $14.99

Across 8 observed UTC days from 2026-07-15 to 2026-07-22, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $14.99 to $14.99. The tracked-window low was $14.99 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

Genres

Action AdventureIndieRPG Simulation

Frequently asked questions

How many copies has Hard Time III sold?: indielist estimates Hard Time III has sold between 32,580 and 76,020 units (median 54,300), derived from its 905 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
Who developed Hard Time III?: Hard Time III was developed by MDickie and published by MDickie.
Who published Hard Time III?: Hard Time III was published by MDickie, developed by MDickie. See MDickie's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
When was Hard Time III released?: Hard Time III was released in 2024.
How many reviews does Hard Time III have on Steam?: Hard Time III has 905 Steam reviews, of which 85% are positive.
Is Hard Time III worth playing?: Steam players rate Hard Time III 85% positive across 905 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 Hard Time III 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, MDickie's other releases and MDickie's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Hard Time III 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 Hard Time III 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.