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A casual indie game from d-pad, Chest Buster offers a budget entry point at $4.99. Released in 2026 and self-published by d-pad, it has 136 Steam reviews with 92% positive sentiment, giving it a modest but very positive hidden-gem signal.
Overview
Chest Buster is a 2026 Casual game developed by D-Pad and published by D-Pad. On Steam it has gathered 159 player reviews, 93% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Casual category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $5. The pairing of developer D-Pad with publisher D-Pad is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Casual projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 1,000 to 3,000 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, Chest Buster can be compared against similar Casual titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
159
Positive
93%
Steam appid
4624560
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.01K to 3K
units (median: 2K)
≈ $4K to $10K modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2026 | -10 |
| price_$5 | -20 |
| positive_93% | +10 |
| genre_Casual | -15 |
| final NB | 15 |
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 Chest Buster at roughly 1,000 to 3,000 copies, with a median around 2,000, derived from its 159 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $7K 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
7 observed days · window low $4.24Across 7 observed UTC days from 2026-07-27 to 2026-09-07, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $4.24 to $4.99. The tracked-window low was $4.24 on 2026-07-27.
Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.
Where to buy
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- Green Man Gaming
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- Humble Store
- GOG.com
Latest tracked store observations (2026-09-07 06:49 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
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Chest Buster sold?
- indielist estimates Chest Buster has sold between 1,431 and 3,339 units (median 2,385), derived from its 159 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Chest Buster?
- Chest Buster was developed by D-Pad and published by D-Pad.
- Who published Chest Buster?
- Chest Buster was published by D-Pad, developed by D-Pad. See D-Pad's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was Chest Buster released?
- Chest Buster was released in 2026.
- How many reviews does Chest Buster have on Steam?
- Chest Buster has 159 Steam reviews, of which 93% are positive.
- Is Chest Buster worth playing?
- Steam players rate Chest Buster 93% positive across 159 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 Chest Buster can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Casual titles such as Garry's Mod, Wallpaper Engine, Factorio, Balatro, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, D-Pad's other releases and D-Pad's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Chest Buster 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 Chest Buster page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Casual 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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