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Action indie game Nex Machina was released in 2017 by Housemarque, which is listed as both developer and publisher. It has 1,463 Steam reviews marked mixed and an initial price of $19.99.
Overview
Nex Machina is a 2017 Action game developed by Housemarque and published by Housemarque. On Steam it has gathered 1,466 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 Housemarque with publisher Housemarque 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 79,000 to 185,000 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, Nex Machina can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
1,466
Positive
87%
Steam appid
404540
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.079K to 185K
units (median: 132K)
≈ $904K to $2.1M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2017 | +30 |
| price_$20 | 0 |
| positive_87% | +10 |
| final NB | 90 |
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 Nex Machina at roughly 79,000 to 185,000 copies, with a median around 132,000, derived from its 1,466 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $1.5M 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 $19.99Across 3 observed UTC days from 2026-08-19 to 2026-09-02, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $19.99 to $19.99. The tracked-window low was $19.99 on 2026-08-19.
Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.
Where to buy
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Platforms
windows
Genres
ActionIndie
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Nex Machina sold?
- indielist estimates Nex Machina has sold between 79,164 and 184,716 units (median 131,940), derived from its 1,466 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Nex Machina?
- Nex Machina was developed by Housemarque and published by Housemarque.
- Who published Nex Machina?
- Nex Machina was published by Housemarque, developed by Housemarque. See Housemarque's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was Nex Machina released?
- Nex Machina was released in 2017.
- How many reviews does Nex Machina have on Steam?
- Nex Machina has 1,466 Steam reviews, of which 87% are positive.
- Is Nex Machina worth playing?
- Steam players rate Nex Machina 87% positive across 1,466 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 Nex Machina 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, Housemarque's other releases and Housemarque's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Nex Machina 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 Nex Machina 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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