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This game utilizes a high-stakes tabletop mechanic centered on a shotgun. It launched in 2024 and currently maintains a 96% positive rating across 33,862 reviews on Steam. The title is categorized under the indie tag and operates as a self-published release.
Overview
Buckshot Roulette is a 2024 Action game developed by Mike Klubnika and published by CRITICAL REFLEX. On Steam it has gathered 107,163 player reviews, 95% of them positive, which counts as a overwhelmingly positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on linux, windows, and launched at $3. The pairing of developer Mike Klubnika with publisher CRITICAL REFLEX 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 2.6 million to 6.0 million 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, Buckshot Roulette can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
107,163
Positive
95%
Steam appid
2835570
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
904
Historical snapshot ·
Sales estimate
v1.02.6M to 6.0M
units (median: 4.3M)
≈ $4.4M to $10.2M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2024 | 0 |
| price_$3 | -20 |
| positive_95% | +10 |
| final NB | 40 |
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 Buckshot Roulette at roughly 2.6 million to 6.0 million copies, with a median around 4.3 million, derived from its 107,163 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $7.3M 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
55 observed days · window low $1.49Across 55 observed UTC days from 2026-05-15 to 2026-07-24, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $1.49 to $2.99. The tracked-window low was $1.49 on 2026-06-12.
Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.
Where to buy
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Platforms
linuxwindows
Tags
MultiplayerDarkGamblingHorrorFirst-PersonStrategySingleplayerIndie3DPsychologicalPuzzlePsychological HorrorBloodExperimentalActionRogue-likeSimulationSurrealFPSRogue-lite
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Buckshot Roulette sold?
- indielist estimates Buckshot Roulette has sold between 2,571,912 and 6,001,128 units (median 4,286,520), derived from its 107,163 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Buckshot Roulette?
- Buckshot Roulette was developed by Mike Klubnika and published by CRITICAL REFLEX.
- Who published Buckshot Roulette?
- Buckshot Roulette was published by CRITICAL REFLEX, developed by Mike Klubnika. See CRITICAL REFLEX's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was Buckshot Roulette released?
- Buckshot Roulette was released in 2024.
- How many reviews does Buckshot Roulette have on Steam?
- Buckshot Roulette has 107,163 Steam reviews, of which 95% are positive.
- Is Buckshot Roulette worth playing?
- Steam players rate Buckshot Roulette 95% positive across 107,163 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 Buckshot Roulette can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Action titles such as Visage, Scorn, Baldi's Basics Plus, PANICORE, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Mike Klubnika's other releases and CRITICAL REFLEX's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Buckshot Roulette 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 Buckshot Roulette 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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