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Action indie game Desktop Survivors 98 launched in 2025 from developer and publisher brandon-hesslau. It has 1,296 Steam reviews listed as 0% positive / mixed and a budget initial price of $4.99.
Overview
Desktop Survivors 98 is a 2025 Action game developed by Brandon Hesslau and published by Brandon Hesslau. On Steam it has gathered 1,337 player reviews, 95% 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 $5. The pairing of developer Brandon Hesslau with publisher Brandon Hesslau 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 24,000 to 56,000 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, Desktop Survivors 98 can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
1,337
Positive
95%
Steam appid
3339780
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.024K to 56K
units (median: 40K)
≈ $69K to $160K modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2025 | -10 |
| price_$5 | -20 |
| positive_95% | +10 |
| final NB | 30 |
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 Desktop Survivors 98 at roughly 24,000 to 56,000 copies, with a median around 40,000, derived from its 1,337 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $114K 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 $4.99Across 15 observed UTC days from 2026-07-15 to 2026-09-05, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $4.99 to $4.99. The tracked-window low was $4.99 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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- GOG.com
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Platforms
windows
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Desktop Survivors 98 sold?
- indielist estimates Desktop Survivors 98 has sold between 24,066 and 56,154 units (median 40,110), derived from its 1,337 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Desktop Survivors 98?
- Desktop Survivors 98 was developed by Brandon Hesslau and published by Brandon Hesslau.
- Who published Desktop Survivors 98?
- Desktop Survivors 98 was published by Brandon Hesslau, developed by Brandon Hesslau. See Brandon Hesslau's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was Desktop Survivors 98 released?
- Desktop Survivors 98 was released in 2025.
- How many reviews does Desktop Survivors 98 have on Steam?
- Desktop Survivors 98 has 1,337 Steam reviews, of which 95% are positive.
- Is Desktop Survivors 98 worth playing?
- Steam players rate Desktop Survivors 98 95% positive across 1,337 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 Desktop Survivors 98 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, Brandon Hesslau's other releases and Brandon Hesslau's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Desktop Survivors 98 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 Desktop Survivors 98 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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