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Action indie game Ben and Ed launched in 2015 from developer and publisher Sluggerfly. With 4,851 Steam reviews at 83% positive and a $9.99 initial price, it fits a budget, mostly positive hidden-gem profile.
Overview
Ben and Ed is a 2015 Action game developed by Sluggerfly and published by Sluggerfly. On Steam it has gathered 4,530 player reviews, 83% of them positive, which counts as a mostly positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $10. The pairing of developer Sluggerfly with publisher Sluggerfly 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 204,000 to 476,000 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, Ben and Ed can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
4,530
Positive
83%
Steam appid
395200
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.0204K to 476K
units (median: 340K)
≈ $1.2M to $2.7M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2015 | +30 |
| price_$10 | -5 |
| positive_83% | 0 |
| 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 Ben and Ed at roughly 204,000 to 476,000 copies, with a median around 340,000, derived from its 4,530 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $1.9M 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 $9.99Across 8 observed UTC days from 2026-07-15 to 2026-07-22, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $9.99 to $9.99. The tracked-window low was $9.99 on 2026-07-15.
Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.
Where to buy
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- GOG.com
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Platforms
windows
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Ben and Ed sold?
- indielist estimates Ben and Ed has sold between 203,850 and 475,650 units (median 339,750), derived from its 4,530 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Ben and Ed?
- Ben and Ed was developed by Sluggerfly and published by Sluggerfly.
- Who published Ben and Ed?
- Ben and Ed was published by Sluggerfly, developed by Sluggerfly. See Sluggerfly's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was Ben and Ed released?
- Ben and Ed was released in 2015.
- How many reviews does Ben and Ed have on Steam?
- Ben and Ed has 4,530 Steam reviews, of which 83% are positive.
- Is Ben and Ed worth playing?
- Steam players rate Ben and Ed 83% positive across 4,530 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 Ben and Ed 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, Sluggerfly's other releases and Sluggerfly's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Ben and Ed 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 Ben and Ed 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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