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Action indie game Bat Boy pairs a clear genre hook with a modest but strong Steam signal: 142 reviews at 96% positive. Released in 2023 by developer X PLUS Co., Ltd. and publisher DANGEN Entertainment, it launched at $14.99.
Overview
Bat Boy is a 2023 Action game developed by X PLUS Co., Ltd. and published by DANGEN Entertainment. On Steam it has gathered 144 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 windows, and launched at $15. The pairing of developer X PLUS Co., Ltd. with publisher DANGEN Entertainment 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 5,000 to 12,000 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, Bat Boy can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
144
Positive
95%
Steam appid
1709350
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.05K to 12K
units (median: 9K)
≈ $44K to $104K modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2023 | 0 |
| price_$15 | 0 |
| positive_95% | +10 |
| final NB | 60 |
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 Bat Boy at roughly 5,000 to 12,000 copies, with a median around 9,000, derived from its 144 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $74K 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
15 observed days · window low $7.49Across 15 observed UTC days from 2026-07-15 to 2026-09-06, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $7.49 to $14.99. The tracked-window low was $7.49 on 2026-08-16.
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 (2026-09-06 06:49 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 Bat Boy sold?
- indielist estimates Bat Boy has sold between 5,184 and 12,096 units (median 8,640), derived from its 144 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Bat Boy?
- Bat Boy was developed by X PLUS Co., Ltd. and published by DANGEN Entertainment.
- Who published Bat Boy?
- Bat Boy was published by DANGEN Entertainment, developed by X PLUS Co., Ltd.. See DANGEN Entertainment's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was Bat Boy released?
- Bat Boy was released in 2023.
- How many reviews does Bat Boy have on Steam?
- Bat Boy has 144 Steam reviews, of which 95% are positive.
- Is Bat Boy worth playing?
- Steam players rate Bat Boy 95% positive across 144 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 Bat Boy can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Action titles such as Terraria, Rust, Phasmophobia, The Forest, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, X PLUS Co., Ltd.'s other releases and DANGEN Entertainment's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Bat Boy 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 Bat Boy 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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