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Action indie game BZZZT comes from developer ko-dll and was published by cinemax-games. Released in 2023, it has 1,403 Steam reviews listed as mixed with 0% positive, and launched at an initial price of $11.99.
Overview
BZZZT is a 2023 Action game developed by KO.DLL and published by CINEMAX GAMES. On Steam it has gathered 1,416 player reviews, 94% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on linux, mac, windows, and launched at $12. The pairing of developer KO.DLL with publisher CINEMAX GAMES 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 51,000 to 119,000 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, BZZZT can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
1,416
Positive
94%
Steam appid
1293170
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.051K to 119K
units (median: 85K)
≈ $349K to $815K modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2023 | 0 |
| price_$12 | 0 |
| positive_94% | +10 |
| final NB | 60 |
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 BZZZT at roughly 51,000 to 119,000 copies, with a median around 85,000, derived from its 1,416 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $582K 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
9 observed days · window low $2.99Across 9 observed UTC days from 2026-07-15 to 2026-07-24, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $2.99 to $2.99. The tracked-window low was $2.99 on 2026-07-15.
Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.
Where to buy
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Platforms
linuxmacwindows
Genres
ActionIndie
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has BZZZT sold?
- indielist estimates BZZZT has sold between 50,976 and 118,944 units (median 84,960), derived from its 1,416 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed BZZZT?
- BZZZT was developed by KO.DLL and published by CINEMAX GAMES.
- Who published BZZZT?
- BZZZT was published by CINEMAX GAMES, developed by KO.DLL. See CINEMAX GAMES's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was BZZZT released?
- BZZZT was released in 2023.
- How many reviews does BZZZT have on Steam?
- BZZZT has 1,416 Steam reviews, of which 94% are positive.
- Is BZZZT worth playing?
- Steam players rate BZZZT 94% positive across 1,416 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 BZZZT can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Action titles such as Rust, Terraria, Phasmophobia, ARK: Survival Evolved, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, KO.DLL's other releases and CINEMAX GAMES's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where BZZZT 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 BZZZT 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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