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Action indie game Heavy Bullets launched in 2014 from developer terri-vellmann and publisher Devolver Digital. It has 1,253 Steam reviews marked mixed and an initial price of $9.99, making it a budget-priced option to evaluate.
Overview
Heavy Bullets is a 2014 Action game developed by Terri Vellmann and published by Devolver Digital. On Steam it has gathered 1,258 player reviews, 82% 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 $10. The pairing of developer Terri Vellmann with publisher Devolver Digital 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 57,000 to 132,000 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, Heavy Bullets can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
1,258
Positive
82%
Steam appid
297120
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.057K to 132K
units (median: 94K)
≈ $323K to $754K modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2014 | +30 |
| price_$10 | -5 |
| positive_82% | 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 Heavy Bullets at roughly 57,000 to 132,000 copies, with a median around 94,000, derived from its 1,258 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $538K 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
9 observed days · window low $1.99Across 9 observed UTC days from 2026-07-15 to 2026-07-24, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $1.99 to $9.99. The tracked-window low was $1.99 on 2026-07-21.
Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.
Where to buy
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Platforms
linuxmacwindows
Genres
ActionIndie
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Heavy Bullets sold?
- indielist estimates Heavy Bullets has sold between 56,610 and 132,090 units (median 94,350), derived from its 1,258 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Heavy Bullets?
- Heavy Bullets was developed by Terri Vellmann and published by Devolver Digital.
- Who published Heavy Bullets?
- Heavy Bullets was published by Devolver Digital, developed by Terri Vellmann. See Devolver Digital's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was Heavy Bullets released?
- Heavy Bullets was released in 2014.
- How many reviews does Heavy Bullets have on Steam?
- Heavy Bullets has 1,258 Steam reviews, of which 82% are positive.
- Is Heavy Bullets worth playing?
- Steam players rate Heavy Bullets 82% positive across 1,258 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 Heavy Bullets 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, Terri Vellmann's other releases and Devolver Digital's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Heavy Bullets 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 Heavy Bullets 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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