Dead as Disco
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Action-focused indie game Dead as Disco launched in 2026 from Brain Jar Games Inc., with the developer also listed as publisher. On Steam it has 9,792 reviews at 97% positive, and its initial price is $24.99.
Overview
Dead as Disco is a 2026 Action game developed by Brain Jar Games, Inc. and published by Brain Jar Games, Inc.. On Steam it has gathered 12,118 player reviews, 97% of them positive, which counts as a overwhelmingly positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $25. The pairing of developer Brain Jar Games, Inc. with publisher Brain Jar Games, Inc. 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 400,000 to 933,000 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, Dead as Disco can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
12,118
Positive
97%
Steam appid
3404260
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.0400K to 933K
units (median: 666K)
≈ $5.7M to $13.3M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2026 | -10 |
| price_$25 | +5 |
| positive_97% | +10 |
| final NB | 55 |
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 Dead as Disco at roughly 400,000 to 933,000 copies, with a median around 666,000, derived from its 12,118 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $9.5M 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
41 observed days · window low $19.99Across 41 observed UTC days from 2026-06-17 to 2026-09-01, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $19.99 to $24.99. The tracked-window low was $19.99 on 2026-06-19.
Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.
Where to buy
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Platforms
windows
Genres
ActionIndieEarly Access
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Dead as Disco sold?
- indielist estimates Dead as Disco has sold between 399,894 and 933,086 units (median 666,490), derived from its 12,118 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Dead as Disco?
- Dead as Disco was developed by Brain Jar Games, Inc. and published by Brain Jar Games, Inc..
- Who published Dead as Disco?
- Dead as Disco was published by Brain Jar Games, Inc., developed by Brain Jar Games, Inc.. See Brain Jar Games, Inc.'s full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was Dead as Disco released?
- Dead as Disco was released in 2026.
- How many reviews does Dead as Disco have on Steam?
- Dead as Disco has 12,118 Steam reviews, of which 97% are positive.
- Is Dead as Disco worth playing?
- Steam players rate Dead as Disco 97% positive across 12,118 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 Dead as Disco 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, Brain Jar Games, Inc.'s other releases and Brain Jar Games, Inc.'s wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Dead as Disco 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 Dead as Disco 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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