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Action indie game Maximum Action launched in 2018 from developer George Mandell and publisher Balloon Moose Games. On Steam it has 3,887 reviews with 89% positive, a very positive signal for players comparing lesser-known action releases. Initial price was $19.99.
Overview
Maximum Action is a 2018 Action game developed by George Mandell and published by Balloon Moose Games. On Steam it has gathered 3,662 player reviews, 89% 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 $20. The pairing of developer George Mandell with publisher Balloon Moose Games 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 165,000 to 385,000 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, Maximum Action can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
3,662
Positive
89%
Steam appid
853770
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.0165K to 385K
units (median: 275K)
≈ $1.9M to $4.4M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2018 | +15 |
| price_$20 | 0 |
| positive_89% | +10 |
| final NB | 75 |
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 Maximum Action at roughly 165,000 to 385,000 copies, with a median around 275,000, derived from its 3,662 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $3.1M 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 $19.99Across 6 observed UTC days from 2026-07-17 to 2026-07-22, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $19.99 to $19.99. The tracked-window low was $19.99 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
ActionIndieEarly Access
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Maximum Action sold?
- indielist estimates Maximum Action has sold between 164,790 and 384,510 units (median 274,650), derived from its 3,662 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Maximum Action?
- Maximum Action was developed by George Mandell and published by Balloon Moose Games.
- Who published Maximum Action?
- Maximum Action was published by Balloon Moose Games, developed by George Mandell. See Balloon Moose Games's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was Maximum Action released?
- Maximum Action was released in 2018.
- How many reviews does Maximum Action have on Steam?
- Maximum Action has 3,662 Steam reviews, of which 89% are positive.
- Is Maximum Action worth playing?
- Steam players rate Maximum Action 89% positive across 3,662 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 Maximum Action 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, George Mandell's other releases and Balloon Moose Games's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Maximum Action 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 Maximum Action 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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