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Action indie game Pixel Descent launched in 2024 from developer and publisher moonskull-games. With 125 Steam reviews at 84% positive and a $5.99 launch price, it fits a budget hidden-gem profile for players scanning modestly reviewed action releases.
Overview
Pixel Descent is a 2024 Action game developed by Moonskull Games and published by Moonskull Games. On Steam it has gathered 125 player reviews, 84% of them positive, which counts as a mostly positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $6. The pairing of developer Moonskull Games with publisher Moonskull Games 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 3,000 to 8,000 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, Pixel Descent can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
125
Positive
84%
Steam appid
2569330
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.03K to 8K
units (median: 6K)
≈ $12K to $27K modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2024 | 0 |
| price_$6 | -5 |
| positive_84% | 0 |
| final NB | 45 |
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 Pixel Descent at roughly 3,000 to 8,000 copies, with a median around 6,000, derived from its 125 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $19K 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
12 observed days · window low $5.99Across 12 observed UTC days from 2026-07-15 to 2026-09-01, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $5.99 to $5.99. The tracked-window low was $5.99 on 2026-07-15.
Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.
Where to buy
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- Green Man Gaming
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- Humble Store
- GOG.com
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Platforms
windows
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Pixel Descent sold?
- indielist estimates Pixel Descent has sold between 3,375 and 7,875 units (median 5,625), derived from its 125 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Pixel Descent?
- Pixel Descent was developed by Moonskull Games and published by Moonskull Games.
- Who published Pixel Descent?
- Pixel Descent was published by Moonskull Games, developed by Moonskull Games. See Moonskull Games's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was Pixel Descent released?
- Pixel Descent was released in 2024.
- How many reviews does Pixel Descent have on Steam?
- Pixel Descent has 125 Steam reviews, of which 84% are positive.
- Is Pixel Descent worth playing?
- Steam players rate Pixel Descent 84% positive across 125 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 Pixel Descent 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, Moonskull Games's other releases and Moonskull Games's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Pixel Descent 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 Pixel Descent 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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