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Action indie game Dustforce DX was released in 2012 by Hitbox Team and self-published by the developer. With 2,385 Steam reviews at 88% positive and a $9.99 initial price, it fits a budget-friendly, well-rated option for players seeking precise action gameplay.
Overview
Dustforce DX is a 2012 Action game developed by Hitbox Team, who self-published it. On Steam it has gathered 1,212 player reviews, 88% 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 $10. As a self-published Action project, Dustforce DX sits among the independent releases indielist tracks where the developer Hitbox Team retained both creative and commercial control, a path many indie studios weigh against signing with a publisher. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 62,000 to 144,000 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, Dustforce DX can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
1,212
Positive
88%
Steam appid
65300
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.062K to 144K
units (median: 103K)
≈ $353K to $823K modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2012 | +30 |
| price_$10 | -5 |
| positive_88% | +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 Dustforce DX at roughly 62,000 to 144,000 copies, with a median around 103,000, derived from its 1,212 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $588K 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
6 observed days · window low $7.49Across 6 observed UTC days from 2026-07-17 to 2026-07-22, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $7.49 to $7.49. The tracked-window low was $7.49 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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Platforms
linuxmacwindows
Genres
ActionIndie
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Dustforce DX sold?
- indielist estimates Dustforce DX has sold between 61,812 and 144,228 units (median 103,020), derived from its 1,212 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Dustforce DX?
- Dustforce DX was developed by Hitbox Team and is self-published.
- When was Dustforce DX released?
- Dustforce DX was released in 2012.
- How many reviews does Dustforce DX have on Steam?
- Dustforce DX has 1,212 Steam reviews, of which 88% are positive.
- Is Dustforce DX worth playing?
- Steam players rate Dustforce DX 88% positive across 1,212 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 Dustforce 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, Hitbox Team's other releases are one click away, letting players and analysts see where Dustforce DX sits among the studio's body of work without a publisher in the loop. Because indielist maps studios, publishers, games, and funding into one connected graph, the same Dustforce 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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