How many copies has Paper Beast sold?

indielist estimates Paper Beast has sold between 36,567 and 85,323 units (median 60,945), derived from its 717 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.

Who developed Paper Beast?

Paper Beast was developed by Pixel Reef and published by Pixel Reef.

Who published Paper Beast?

Paper Beast was published by Pixel Reef, developed by Pixel Reef. See Pixel Reef's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.

When was Paper Beast released?

Paper Beast was released in 2020.

How many reviews does Paper Beast have on Steam?

Paper Beast has 717 Steam reviews, of which 94% are positive.

Is Paper Beast worth playing?

Steam players rate Paper Beast 94% positive across 717 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.

Paper Beast

Jul 24, 2020 Adventure $19.99

Developer Pixel Reef Publisher Pixel Reef

Profile updated Oct 2026

Paper Beast is an adventure indie game from 2020, developed and self-published by pixel-reef. It has 532 Steam reviews with a listed mixed rating and launched at $19.99; its engine is not identified in the available information.

Paper Beast is a 2020 Adventure game developed by Pixel Reef and published by Pixel Reef. On Steam it has gathered 717 player reviews, 94% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Adventure category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $20. The pairing of developer Pixel Reef with publisher Pixel Reef is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Adventure projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 37,000 to 85,000 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, Paper Beast can be compared against similar Adventure titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.

Reviews

717

Positive

94%

Steam appid

1232570

Engine

Unknown

Players (snapshot)

Unavailable

Sales estimate

v1.0

37K to 85K

units (median: 61K)

≈ $418K to $974K modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)

37K median 85K

+ How is this calculated?

717 reviews × NB(85) = 60,945 median units

Factor	Adjustment
base	+50
year_2020	+15
price_$20	0
positive_94%	+10
genre_Adventure	+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 Paper Beast at roughly 37,000 to 85,000 copies, with a median around 61,000, derived from its 717 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $696K 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

1 observed day · window low $1.99

Across 1 observed UTC day from 2026-10-18 to 2026-10-18, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $1.99 to $1.99. The tracked-window low was $1.99 on 2026-10-18.

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

Adventure CasualIndieSimulation

Frequently asked questions

How many copies has Paper Beast sold?: indielist estimates Paper Beast has sold between 36,567 and 85,323 units (median 60,945), derived from its 717 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
Who developed Paper Beast?: Paper Beast was developed by Pixel Reef and published by Pixel Reef.
Who published Paper Beast?: Paper Beast was published by Pixel Reef, developed by Pixel Reef. See Pixel Reef's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
When was Paper Beast released?: Paper Beast was released in 2020.
How many reviews does Paper Beast have on Steam?: Paper Beast has 717 Steam reviews, of which 94% are positive.
Is Paper Beast worth playing?: Steam players rate Paper Beast 94% positive across 717 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.

Players looking for games like Paper Beast can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Adventure titles such as Subnautica, Raft, Satisfactory, Human Fall Flat, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Pixel Reef's other releases and Pixel Reef's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Paper Beast 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 Paper Beast page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Adventure 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.

Matched from shared Steam tags and primary genre. Review count breaks ties; it is not a personal recommendation score.