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Action indie game Dino Run DX comes from developer pixeljam and was released in 2015. It has 1,112 Steam reviews listed as mixed with 0% positive, and its $5.99 initial price puts it in the budget range. Publisher slug is akupara-games.
Overview
Dino Run DX is a 2015 Action game developed by Pixeljam and published by Akupara Games. On Steam it has gathered 1,118 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 mac, windows, and launched at $6. The pairing of developer Pixeljam with publisher Akupara 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 57,000 to 133,000 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, Dino Run DX can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
1,118
Positive
94%
Steam appid
248330
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.057K to 133K
units (median: 95K)
≈ $195K to $455K modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2015 | +30 |
| price_$6 | -5 |
| positive_94% | +10 |
| final NB | 85 |
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 Dino Run DX at roughly 57,000 to 133,000 copies, with a median around 95,000, derived from its 1,118 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $325K 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
8 observed days · window low $4.01Across 8 observed UTC days from 2026-07-15 to 2026-07-22, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $4.01 to $4.01. The tracked-window low was $4.01 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
macwindows
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Dino Run DX sold?
- indielist estimates Dino Run DX has sold between 57,018 and 133,042 units (median 95,030), derived from its 1,118 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Dino Run DX?
- Dino Run DX was developed by Pixeljam and published by Akupara Games.
- Who published Dino Run DX?
- Dino Run DX was published by Akupara Games, developed by Pixeljam. See Akupara Games's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was Dino Run DX released?
- Dino Run DX was released in 2015.
- How many reviews does Dino Run DX have on Steam?
- Dino Run DX has 1,118 Steam reviews, of which 94% are positive.
- Is Dino Run DX worth playing?
- Steam players rate Dino Run DX 94% positive across 1,118 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 Dino Run DX 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, Pixeljam's other releases and Akupara Games's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Dino Run DX 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 Dino Run DX 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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