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Action indie game Junk Jack launched in 2016 from Pixbits, with Pixbits also listed as publisher. It has 440 Steam reviews marked Mixed, an initial price of $14.99, and no engine or tag data provided.
Overview
Junk Jack is a 2016 Action game developed by Pixbits and published by Pixbits. On Steam it has gathered 440 player reviews, 78% of them positive, which counts as a mostly positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on linux, mac, windows, and launched at $15. The pairing of developer Pixbits with publisher Pixbits 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 21,000 to 49,000 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, Junk Jack can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
440
Positive
78%
Steam appid
414190
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.021K to 49K
units (median: 35K)
≈ $181K to $422K modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2016 | +30 |
| price_$15 | 0 |
| positive_78% | 0 |
| final NB | 80 |
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 Junk Jack at roughly 21,000 to 49,000 copies, with a median around 35,000, derived from its 440 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $301K 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
3 observed days · window low $14.99Across 3 observed UTC days from 2026-08-22 to 2026-09-05, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $14.99 to $14.99. The tracked-window low was $14.99 on 2026-08-22.
Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.
Where to buy
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Platforms
linuxmacwindows
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Junk Jack sold?
- indielist estimates Junk Jack has sold between 21,120 and 49,280 units (median 35,200), derived from its 440 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Junk Jack?
- Junk Jack was developed by Pixbits and published by Pixbits.
- Who published Junk Jack?
- Junk Jack was published by Pixbits, developed by Pixbits. See Pixbits's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was Junk Jack released?
- Junk Jack was released in 2016.
- How many reviews does Junk Jack have on Steam?
- Junk Jack has 440 Steam reviews, of which 78% are positive.
- Is Junk Jack worth playing?
- Steam players rate Junk Jack 78% positive across 440 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 Junk Jack 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, Pixbits's other releases and Pixbits's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Junk Jack 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 Junk Jack 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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