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Action indie game Brave Escape comes from Hit Start Studios, which is listed as both developer and publisher. Released in 2025, it has 137 Steam reviews with 99% positive sentiment, an overwhelmingly positive rating, and an initial price of $19.99.
Overview
Brave Escape is a 2025 Action game developed by Hit Start Studios and published by Hit Start Studios. On Steam it has gathered 144 player reviews, 98% of them positive, which counts as a overwhelmingly positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on linux, mac, windows, and launched at $20. The pairing of developer Hit Start Studios with publisher Hit Start Studios 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 4,000 to 10,000 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, Brave Escape can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
144
Positive
98%
Steam appid
1354260
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.04K to 10K
units (median: 7K)
≈ $49K to $115K modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2025 | -10 |
| price_$20 | 0 |
| positive_98% | +10 |
| final NB | 50 |
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 Brave Escape at roughly 4,000 to 10,000 copies, with a median around 7,000, derived from its 144 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $82K 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 $9.99Across 15 observed UTC days from 2026-07-15 to 2026-09-07, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $9.99 to $19.99. The tracked-window low was $9.99 on 2026-08-03.
Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.
Where to buy
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Platforms
linuxmacwindows
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Brave Escape sold?
- indielist estimates Brave Escape has sold between 4,320 and 10,080 units (median 7,200), derived from its 144 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Brave Escape?
- Brave Escape was developed by Hit Start Studios and published by Hit Start Studios.
- Who published Brave Escape?
- Brave Escape was published by Hit Start Studios, developed by Hit Start Studios. See Hit Start Studios's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was Brave Escape released?
- Brave Escape was released in 2025.
- How many reviews does Brave Escape have on Steam?
- Brave Escape has 144 Steam reviews, of which 98% are positive.
- Is Brave Escape worth playing?
- Steam players rate Brave Escape 98% 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 Brave Escape 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, Hit Start Studios's other releases and Hit Start Studios's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Brave Escape 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 Brave Escape 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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