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Top-down action focused on stealth, tactical play, and difficult assassin-style encounters. Released in 2021, Intravenous has 5,468 Steam reviews with 90% positive sentiment and was published by hypetrain-digital, with development credited to explosive-squat-games.
Overview
Intravenous is a 2021 Action game developed by Explosive Squat Games and published by HypeTrain Digital. On Steam it has gathered 2,844 player reviews, 90% 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 Explosive Squat Games with publisher HypeTrain 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 128,000 to 299,000 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, Intravenous can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
2,844
Positive
90%
Steam appid
1486630
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.0128K to 299K
units (median: 213K)
≈ $1.5M to $3.4M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2021 | +15 |
| price_$20 | 0 |
| positive_90% | +10 |
| final NB | 75 |
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 Intravenous at roughly 128,000 to 299,000 copies, with a median around 213,000, derived from its 2,844 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $2.4M 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
21 observed days · window low $2.99Across 21 observed UTC days from 2026-06-04 to 2026-07-22, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $2.99 to $14.99. The tracked-window low was $2.99 on 2026-06-05.
Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.
Where to buy
Affiliate disclosure- GOG.com -80%$2.99 Buy
- Steam reference -80%$3.99 Buy
- Fanatical -10%$20.53 Buy
- Green Man Gaming
- Humble Store
Latest tracked store observations (2026-07-22 17:34 UTC), cheapest first. Prices may have changed since observation. Some are affiliate links — we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. Learn more.
Platforms
windows
Tags
StealthTacticalDifficultAssassinTop-Down ShooterTop-DownActionPixel GraphicsImmersive SimIndie2DSimulationSingleplayerShooterAtmosphericCombatViolentCrimeStrategyNoir
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Intravenous sold?
- indielist estimates Intravenous has sold between 127,980 and 298,620 units (median 213,300), derived from its 2,844 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Intravenous?
- Intravenous was developed by Explosive Squat Games and published by HypeTrain Digital.
- Who published Intravenous?
- Intravenous was published by HypeTrain Digital, developed by Explosive Squat Games. See HypeTrain Digital's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was Intravenous released?
- Intravenous was released in 2021.
- How many reviews does Intravenous have on Steam?
- Intravenous has 2,844 Steam reviews, of which 90% are positive.
- Is Intravenous worth playing?
- Steam players rate Intravenous 90% positive across 2,844 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 Intravenous can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Action titles such as Hotline Miami, Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number, Nuclear Throne, Trepang2, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Explosive Squat Games's other releases and HypeTrain Digital's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Intravenous 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 Intravenous 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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