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Action indie game I Hate Running Backwards launched in 2018 from binx-games with publishing by Devolver Digital. It lists 188 Steam reviews with a mixed rating signal and an initial price of $14.99.
Overview
I Hate Running Backwards is a 2018 Action game developed by Binx Games and published by Devolver Digital. On Steam it has gathered 188 player reviews, 75% of them positive, which counts as a mixed-to-positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on linux, windows, and launched at $15. The pairing of developer Binx Games with publisher Devolver Digital 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 7,000 to 17,000 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, I Hate Running Backwards can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
188
Positive
75%
Steam appid
575820
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.07K to 17K
units (median: 12K)
≈ $63K to $146K modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2018 | +15 |
| price_$15 | 0 |
| positive_75% | 0 |
| final NB | 65 |
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 I Hate Running Backwards at roughly 7,000 to 17,000 copies, with a median around 12,000, derived from its 188 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $105K 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 $3.74Across 5 observed UTC days from 2026-08-04 to 2026-09-01, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $3.74 to $14.99. The tracked-window low was $3.74 on 2026-08-18.
Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.
Where to buy
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Platforms
linuxwindows
Genres
ActionIndie
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has I Hate Running Backwards sold?
- indielist estimates I Hate Running Backwards has sold between 7,332 and 17,108 units (median 12,220), derived from its 188 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed I Hate Running Backwards?
- I Hate Running Backwards was developed by Binx Games and published by Devolver Digital.
- Who published I Hate Running Backwards?
- I Hate Running Backwards was published by Devolver Digital, developed by Binx Games. See Devolver Digital's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was I Hate Running Backwards released?
- I Hate Running Backwards was released in 2018.
- How many reviews does I Hate Running Backwards have on Steam?
- I Hate Running Backwards has 188 Steam reviews, of which 75% are positive.
- Is I Hate Running Backwards worth playing?
- Steam players rate I Hate Running Backwards 75% positive across 188 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 I Hate Running Backwards 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, Binx Games's other releases and Devolver Digital's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where I Hate Running Backwards 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 I Hate Running Backwards 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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