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Better Than Dead is an action game entering Early Access in 2026. It currently has 636 Steam reviews. The developer is unknown at this time.
Overview
Better Than Dead is a 2026 Action game developed by MONTE GALLO and published by MicroProse Software. On Steam it has gathered 1,588 player reviews, 74% of them positive, which counts as a mixed-to-positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $15. The pairing of developer MONTE GALLO with publisher MicroProse Software 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 38,000 to 89,000 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, Better Than Dead can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
1,588
Positive
74%
Steam appid
2599690
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.038K to 89K
units (median: 64K)
≈ $326K to $761K modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2026 | -10 |
| price_$15 | 0 |
| positive_74% | 0 |
| final NB | 40 |
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 Better Than Dead at roughly 38,000 to 89,000 copies, with a median around 64,000, derived from its 1,588 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $544K 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
55 observed days · window low $11.99Across 55 observed UTC days from 2026-07-27 to 2026-10-23, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $11.99 to $14.99. The tracked-window low was $11.99 on 2026-10-02.
Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.
Where to buy
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- GOG.com
Latest tracked store observations (2026-10-23 04:00 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
Genres
ActionIndieEarly Access
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Better Than Dead sold?
- indielist estimates Better Than Dead has sold between 38,112 and 88,928 units (median 63,520), derived from its 1,588 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Better Than Dead?
- Better Than Dead was developed by MONTE GALLO and published by MicroProse Software.
- Who published Better Than Dead?
- Better Than Dead was published by MicroProse Software, developed by MONTE GALLO. See MicroProse Software's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was Better Than Dead released?
- Better Than Dead was released in 2026.
- How many reviews does Better Than Dead have on Steam?
- Better Than Dead has 1,588 Steam reviews, of which 74% are positive.
- Is Better Than Dead worth playing?
- Steam players rate Better Than Dead 74% positive across 1,588 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 Better Than Dead can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Action titles such as Terraria, Rust, Phasmophobia, Geometry Dash, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, MONTE GALLO's other releases and MicroProse Software's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Better Than Dead 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 Better Than Dead 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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