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Action-focused indie game Budget Cuts pairs a 2018 release with a modest but positive Steam footprint: 1,658 reviews at 80% positive. Neat Corporation handled both development and publishing, and the initial price was $14.99.
Overview
Budget Cuts is a 2018 Action game developed by Neat Corporation and published by Neat Corporation. On Steam it has gathered 1,657 player reviews, 80% 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 $15. The pairing of developer Neat Corporation with publisher Neat Corporation 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 65,000 to 151,000 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, Budget Cuts can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
1,657
Positive
80%
Steam appid
400940
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.065K to 151K
units (median: 108K)
≈ $553K to $1.3M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2018 | +15 |
| price_$15 | 0 |
| positive_80% | 0 |
| final NB | 65 |
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 Budget Cuts at roughly 65,000 to 151,000 copies, with a median around 108,000, derived from its 1,657 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $922K 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 $14.99Across 8 observed UTC days from 2026-07-15 to 2026-07-22, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $14.99 to $14.99. The tracked-window low was $14.99 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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- Green Man Gaming
- Fanatical
- Humble Store
- GOG.com
Latest tracked store observations (2026-07-22 14:49 UTC), cheapest first. Prices may have changed since observation. Some are affiliate links — we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. Learn more.
Platforms
windows
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Budget Cuts sold?
- indielist estimates Budget Cuts has sold between 64,623 and 150,787 units (median 107,705), derived from its 1,657 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Budget Cuts?
- Budget Cuts was developed by Neat Corporation and published by Neat Corporation.
- Who published Budget Cuts?
- Budget Cuts was published by Neat Corporation, developed by Neat Corporation. See Neat Corporation's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was Budget Cuts released?
- Budget Cuts was released in 2018.
- How many reviews does Budget Cuts have on Steam?
- Budget Cuts has 1,657 Steam reviews, of which 80% are positive.
- Is Budget Cuts worth playing?
- Steam players rate Budget Cuts 80% positive across 1,657 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 Budget Cuts 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, Neat Corporation's other releases and Neat Corporation's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Budget Cuts 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 Budget Cuts 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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