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Action indie game Dex comes from Dreadlocks Ltd, which also served as publisher. Released in 2015, it has 2,873 Steam reviews marked mixed at the listed 0% positive figure, with an initial price of $19.99.
Overview
Dex is a 2015 Action game developed by Dreadlocks Ltd. and published by Dreadlocks Ltd.. On Steam it has gathered 2,901 player reviews, 87% 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 $20. The pairing of developer Dreadlocks Ltd. with publisher Dreadlocks Ltd. 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 157,000 to 366,000 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, Dex can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
2,901
Positive
87%
Steam appid
269650
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.0157K to 366K
units (median: 261K)
≈ $1.8M to $4.2M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2015 | +30 |
| price_$20 | 0 |
| positive_87% | +10 |
| final NB | 90 |
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 Dex at roughly 157,000 to 366,000 copies, with a median around 261,000, derived from its 2,901 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $3.0M 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
5 observed days · window low $0.89Across 5 observed UTC days from 2026-08-06 to 2026-09-03, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $0.89 to $0.89. The tracked-window low was $0.89 on 2026-08-06.
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 Dex sold?
- indielist estimates Dex has sold between 156,654 and 365,526 units (median 261,090), derived from its 2,901 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Dex?
- Dex was developed by Dreadlocks Ltd. and published by Dreadlocks Ltd..
- Who published Dex?
- Dex was published by Dreadlocks Ltd., developed by Dreadlocks Ltd.. See Dreadlocks Ltd.'s full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was Dex released?
- Dex was released in 2015.
- How many reviews does Dex have on Steam?
- Dex has 2,901 Steam reviews, of which 87% are positive.
- Is Dex worth playing?
- Steam players rate Dex 87% positive across 2,901 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 Dex 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, Dreadlocks Ltd.'s other releases and Dreadlocks Ltd.'s wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Dex 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 Dex 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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