How many copies has Beat Hazard sold?

indielist estimates Beat Hazard has sold between 258,162 and 602,378 units (median 430,270), derived from its 5,062 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.

Who developed Beat Hazard?

Beat Hazard was developed by Cold Beam Games and published by Cold Beam Games.

Who published Beat Hazard?

Beat Hazard was published by Cold Beam Games, developed by Cold Beam Games. See Cold Beam Games's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.

When was Beat Hazard released?

Beat Hazard was released in 2010.

How many reviews does Beat Hazard have on Steam?

Beat Hazard has 5,062 Steam reviews, of which 95% are positive.

Is Beat Hazard worth playing?

Steam players rate Beat Hazard 95% positive across 5,062 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.

Beat Hazard

Apr 15, 2010 Action $9.99

Developer Cold Beam Games Publisher Cold Beam Games

Profile updated Jun 2026

Twin-stick shooter action meets rhythm-driven, music-based procedural generation, with bullet hell and shoot ’em up tags defining its play. Beat Hazard launched in 2010 from Cold Beam Games, self-published under the same slug, and has 7,430 Steam reviews at 95% positive.

Beat Hazard is a 2010 Action game developed by Cold Beam Games and published by Cold Beam Games. On Steam it has gathered 5,062 player reviews, 95% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on linux, mac, windows, and launched at $10. The pairing of developer Cold Beam Games with publisher Cold Beam 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 258,000 to 602,000 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, Beat Hazard can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.

Reviews

5,062

Positive

95%

Steam appid

49600

Engine

Unknown

Players (snapshot)

Unavailable

Sales estimate

v1.0

258K to 602K

units (median: 430K)

≈ $1.5M to $3.4M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)

258K median 602K

+ How is this calculated?

5,062 reviews × NB(85) = 430,270 median units

Factor	Adjustment
base	+50
year_2010	+30
price_$10	-5
positive_95%	+10
final NB	85

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 Beat Hazard at roughly 258,000 to 602,000 copies, with a median around 430,000, derived from its 5,062 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $2.5M 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

45 observed days · window low $2.49

Across 45 observed UTC days from 2026-06-08 to 2026-07-22, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $2.49 to $9.99. The tracked-window low was $2.49 on 2026-06-08.

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Frequently asked questions

How many copies has Beat Hazard sold?: indielist estimates Beat Hazard has sold between 258,162 and 602,378 units (median 430,270), derived from its 5,062 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
Who developed Beat Hazard?: Beat Hazard was developed by Cold Beam Games and published by Cold Beam Games.
Who published Beat Hazard?: Beat Hazard was published by Cold Beam Games, developed by Cold Beam Games. See Cold Beam Games's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
When was Beat Hazard released?: Beat Hazard was released in 2010.
How many reviews does Beat Hazard have on Steam?: Beat Hazard has 5,062 Steam reviews, of which 95% are positive.
Is Beat Hazard worth playing?: Steam players rate Beat Hazard 95% positive across 5,062 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 Beat Hazard can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Action titles such as Nova Drift, Just Shapes & Beats, A Dance of Fire and Ice, Cuphead, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Cold Beam Games's other releases and Cold Beam Games's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Beat Hazard 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 Beat Hazard 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.