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Action indie game Drums Rock launched in 2023 from developer and publisher garage51. It has 466 Steam reviews with 86% positive ratings, suggesting an underrated reception at a $19.99 initial price.
Overview
Drums Rock is a 2023 Action game developed by Garage51 and published by Garage51. On Steam it has gathered 402 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 windows, and launched at $20. The pairing of developer Garage51 with publisher Garage51 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 14,000 to 34,000 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, Drums Rock can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
402
Positive
87%
Steam appid
1906020
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.014K to 34K
units (median: 24K)
≈ $165K to $386K modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2023 | 0 |
| price_$20 | 0 |
| positive_87% | +10 |
| final NB | 60 |
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 Drums Rock at roughly 14,000 to 34,000 copies, with a median around 24,000, derived from its 402 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $275K 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
13 observed days · window low $19.99Across 13 observed UTC days from 2026-07-17 to 2026-09-06, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $19.99 to $19.99. The tracked-window low was $19.99 on 2026-07-17.
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
- Fanatical
- Humble Store
- GOG.com
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Platforms
windows
Genres
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Drums Rock sold?
- indielist estimates Drums Rock has sold between 14,472 and 33,768 units (median 24,120), derived from its 402 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Drums Rock?
- Drums Rock was developed by Garage51 and published by Garage51.
- Who published Drums Rock?
- Drums Rock was published by Garage51, developed by Garage51. See Garage51's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was Drums Rock released?
- Drums Rock was released in 2023.
- How many reviews does Drums Rock have on Steam?
- Drums Rock has 402 Steam reviews, of which 87% are positive.
- Is Drums Rock worth playing?
- Steam players rate Drums Rock 87% positive across 402 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 Drums Rock 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, Garage51's other releases and Garage51's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Drums Rock 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 Drums Rock 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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