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Action indie game Shotgun Legend offers a budget entry point at $0.99. Released in 2018 by developer jonathan-tindell and publisher wastebasket-games, it has 999 Steam reviews with 90% positive ratings, giving it a very positive player signal.
Overview
Shotgun Legend is a 2018 Action game developed by Jonathan Tindell and published by Wastebasket Games. On Steam it has gathered 900 player reviews, 90% 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 $1. The pairing of developer Jonathan Tindell with publisher Wastebasket 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 30,000 to 69,000 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, Shotgun Legend can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
900
Positive
90%
Steam appid
597230
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.030K to 69K
units (median: 50K)
≈ $17K to $39K modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2018 | +15 |
| price_$1 | -20 |
| positive_90% | +10 |
| final NB | 55 |
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 Shotgun Legend at roughly 30,000 to 69,000 copies, with a median around 50,000, derived from its 900 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $28K 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
4 observed days · window low $0.49Across 4 observed UTC days from 2026-07-20 to 2026-07-26, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $0.49 to $0.99. The tracked-window low was $0.49 on 2026-07-21.
Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.
Where to buy
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Platforms
windows
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Shotgun Legend sold?
- indielist estimates Shotgun Legend has sold between 29,700 and 69,300 units (median 49,500), derived from its 900 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Shotgun Legend?
- Shotgun Legend was developed by Jonathan Tindell and published by Wastebasket Games.
- Who published Shotgun Legend?
- Shotgun Legend was published by Wastebasket Games, developed by Jonathan Tindell. See Wastebasket Games's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was Shotgun Legend released?
- Shotgun Legend was released in 2018.
- How many reviews does Shotgun Legend have on Steam?
- Shotgun Legend has 900 Steam reviews, of which 90% are positive.
- Is Shotgun Legend worth playing?
- Steam players rate Shotgun Legend 90% positive across 900 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 Shotgun Legend 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, Jonathan Tindell's other releases and Wastebasket Games's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Shotgun Legend 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 Shotgun Legend 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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