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Open-world action RPG with singleplayer adventure elements, developed by Experiment 101. BIOMUTANT launched in 2021 with THQ Nordic as publisher, a $39.99 initial price, and 20,064 Steam reviews at 66% positive.
Overview
BIOMUTANT is a 2021 Action game developed by Experiment 101 and published by THQ Nordic. On Steam it has gathered 20,074 player reviews, 66% 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 $40. The pairing of developer Experiment 101 with publisher THQ Nordic 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 843,000 to 2.0 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, BIOMUTANT can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
20,074
Positive
66%
Steam appid
597820
Engine
Unknown
Sales estimate
vv1.0843K to 2.0M
units (median: 1.4M)
≈ $19.3M to $44.9M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2021 | +15 |
| price_$40 | +15 |
| positive_66% | -10 |
| final NB | 70 |
Confidence range: median × [0.6, 1.4]. Boundary protection: NB ∈ [15, 150].
Methodology & limitations
Sales estimates use a multi-factor Boxleiter method against public Steam review counts.
They are not authoritative sales data. Actual sales can deviate by
±50% in either direction. Free-to-play games, deeply discounted titles, and games
with heavy bundle distribution have larger error margins. Algorithm version
v1.0.
indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for BIOMUTANT at roughly 843,000 to 2.0 million copies, with a median around 1.4 million, derived from its 20,074 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $32.1M 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
90d · low $22.41Over the last 90 days the price ranged from $22.41 to $39.99, averaging $37.68 across 3 discount windows, with a historical low of $22.41 on 2026-04-19.
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Platforms
windows
Tags
Open WorldActionSingleplayerRPGAdventureCharacter CustomizationPost-apocalypticThird PersonHack and SlashFantasyAtmosphericExplorationAction RPGMultiplayerMartial ArtsCuteStory RichSci-fiIndieSouls-like
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has BIOMUTANT sold?
- indielist estimates BIOMUTANT has sold between 843,108 and 1,967,252 units (median 1,405,180), derived from its 20,074 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter vv1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed BIOMUTANT?
- BIOMUTANT was developed by Experiment 101 and published by THQ Nordic.
- When was BIOMUTANT released?
- BIOMUTANT was released in 2021.
- How many reviews does BIOMUTANT have on Steam?
- BIOMUTANT has 20,074 Steam reviews, of which 66% are positive.
Ecosystem
indielist positions BIOMUTANT within the Action segment so players can surface comparable titles by shared tags and genre rather than by storefront promotion. On the developer side, Experiment 101's other releases and THQ Nordic's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where BIOMUTANT 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 BIOMUTANT 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.