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Action indie game Bomb Chicken comes from Nitrome, with the same slug listed for developer and publisher. Released in 2019 at an initial $14.99 price, it has 320 Steam reviews with 89% positive, giving it a modest but very positive review base.
Overview
Bomb Chicken is a 2019 Action game developed by Nitrome and published by Nitrome. On Steam it has gathered 323 player reviews, 89% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on mac, windows, and launched at $15. The pairing of developer Nitrome with publisher Nitrome 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 15,000 to 34,000 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, Bomb Chicken can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
323
Positive
89%
Steam appid
658780
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.015K to 34K
units (median: 24K)
≈ $124K to $290K modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2019 | +15 |
| price_$15 | 0 |
| positive_89% | +10 |
| 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 Bomb Chicken at roughly 15,000 to 34,000 copies, with a median around 24,000, derived from its 323 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $207K 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
13 observed days · window low $14.99Across 13 observed UTC days from 2026-07-17 to 2026-09-04, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $14.99 to $14.99. The tracked-window low was $14.99 on 2026-07-17.
Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.
Where to buy
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Platforms
macwindows
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Bomb Chicken sold?
- indielist estimates Bomb Chicken has sold between 14,535 and 33,915 units (median 24,225), derived from its 323 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Bomb Chicken?
- Bomb Chicken was developed by Nitrome and published by Nitrome.
- Who published Bomb Chicken?
- Bomb Chicken was published by Nitrome, developed by Nitrome. See Nitrome's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was Bomb Chicken released?
- Bomb Chicken was released in 2019.
- How many reviews does Bomb Chicken have on Steam?
- Bomb Chicken has 323 Steam reviews, of which 89% are positive.
- Is Bomb Chicken worth playing?
- Steam players rate Bomb Chicken 89% positive across 323 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 Bomb Chicken 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, Nitrome's other releases and Nitrome's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Bomb Chicken 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 Bomb Chicken 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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