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Action-focused indie game from betadwarf, with the studio listed as both developer and publisher. FORCED SHOWDOWN launched in 2016 at an initial price of $19.99 and has 486 Steam reviews marked mixed.
Overview
FORCED SHOWDOWN is a 2016 Action game developed by BetaDwarf and published by BetaDwarf. On Steam it has gathered 488 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 linux, mac, windows, and launched at $20. The pairing of developer BetaDwarf with publisher BetaDwarf 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 23,000 to 55,000 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, FORCED SHOWDOWN can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
488
Positive
83%
Steam appid
265000
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.023K to 55K
units (median: 39K)
≈ $267K to $624K modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2016 | +30 |
| price_$20 | 0 |
| positive_83% | 0 |
| final NB | 80 |
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 FORCED SHOWDOWN at roughly 23,000 to 55,000 copies, with a median around 39,000, derived from its 488 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $446K 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 $19.99Across 8 observed UTC days from 2026-07-15 to 2026-07-22, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $19.99 to $19.99. The tracked-window low was $19.99 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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Platforms
linuxmacwindows
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has FORCED SHOWDOWN sold?
- indielist estimates FORCED SHOWDOWN has sold between 23,424 and 54,656 units (median 39,040), derived from its 488 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed FORCED SHOWDOWN?
- FORCED SHOWDOWN was developed by BetaDwarf and published by BetaDwarf.
- Who published FORCED SHOWDOWN?
- FORCED SHOWDOWN was published by BetaDwarf, developed by BetaDwarf. See BetaDwarf's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was FORCED SHOWDOWN released?
- FORCED SHOWDOWN was released in 2016.
- How many reviews does FORCED SHOWDOWN have on Steam?
- FORCED SHOWDOWN has 488 Steam reviews, of which 83% are positive.
- Is FORCED SHOWDOWN worth playing?
- Steam players rate FORCED SHOWDOWN 83% positive across 488 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 FORCED SHOWDOWN 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, BetaDwarf's other releases and BetaDwarf's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where FORCED SHOWDOWN 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 FORCED SHOWDOWN 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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