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BattleBlock Theater® is an action game released in 2014. It has garnered over 55,500 reviews on Steam.
Overview
BattleBlock Theater® is a 2014 Action game developed by The Behemoth and published by The Behemoth. On Steam it has gathered 55,703 player reviews, 97% of them positive, which counts as a overwhelmingly positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on mac, windows, and launched at $15. The pairing of developer The Behemoth with publisher The Behemoth 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 3.0 million to 7.0 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, BattleBlock Theater® can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
55,703
Positive
97%
Steam appid
238460
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
120
Historical snapshot ·
Sales estimate
v1.03.0M to 7.0M
units (median: 5.0M)
≈ $25.8M to $60.1M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2014 | +30 |
| price_$15 | 0 |
| positive_97% | +10 |
| final NB | 90 |
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 BattleBlock Theater® at roughly 3.0 million to 7.0 million copies, with a median around 5.0 million, derived from its 55,703 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $42.9M 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
54 observed days · window low $4.49Across 54 observed UTC days from 2026-05-31 to 2026-07-24, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $4.49 to $14.99. The tracked-window low was $4.49 on 2026-06-18.
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 (2026-07-24 04:28 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
macwindows
Tags
Co-opPlatformerFunnyComedyLevel EditorMultiplayerLocal Co-Op2DOnline Co-OpCats2D PlatformerActionSide ScrollerLocal MultiplayerCasualSingleplayerPuzzle-PlatformerIndiePuzzleNarration
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has BattleBlock Theater® sold?
- indielist estimates BattleBlock Theater® has sold between 3,007,962 and 7,018,578 units (median 5,013,270), derived from its 55,703 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed BattleBlock Theater®?
- BattleBlock Theater® was developed by The Behemoth and published by The Behemoth.
- Who published BattleBlock Theater®?
- BattleBlock Theater® was published by The Behemoth, developed by The Behemoth. See The Behemoth's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was BattleBlock Theater® released?
- BattleBlock Theater® was released in 2014.
- How many reviews does BattleBlock Theater® have on Steam?
- BattleBlock Theater® has 55,703 Steam reviews, of which 97% are positive.
- Is BattleBlock Theater® worth playing?
- Steam players rate BattleBlock Theater® 97% positive across 55,703 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 BattleBlock Theater® can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Action titles such as PICO PARK, Trine 2: Complete Story, Trine Enchanted Edition, Broforce, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, The Behemoth's other releases and The Behemoth's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where BattleBlock Theater® 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 BattleBlock Theater® 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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- M
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