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Action indie game SHMUP Creator launched in 2022, developed and self-published by bulo-studio. Its 91 Steam reviews are 91% positive, earning a Very Positive rating from a modest review base; its initial price was $69.99.
Overview
SHMUP Creator is a 2022 Action game developed by bulo studio and published by bulo studio. On Steam it has gathered 91 player reviews, 91% 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 $70. The pairing of developer bulo studio with publisher bulo studio 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 4,000 to 10,000 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, SHMUP Creator can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
91
Positive
91%
Steam appid
1289520
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.04K to 10K
units (median: 7K)
≈ $164K to $382K modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2022 | 0 |
| price_$70 | +15 |
| positive_91% | +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 SHMUP Creator at roughly 4,000 to 10,000 copies, with a median around 7,000, derived from its 91 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $273K 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
13 observed days · window low $69.99Across 13 observed UTC days from 2026-07-27 to 2026-10-19, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $69.99 to $69.99. The tracked-window low was $69.99 on 2026-07-27.
Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.
Where to buy
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- GOG.com
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Platforms
windows
Genres
ActionIndieDesign & IllustrationSoftware TrainingGame Development
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has SHMUP Creator sold?
- indielist estimates SHMUP Creator has sold between 4,095 and 9,555 units (median 6,825), derived from its 91 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed SHMUP Creator?
- SHMUP Creator was developed by bulo studio and published by bulo studio.
- Who published SHMUP Creator?
- SHMUP Creator was published by bulo studio, developed by bulo studio. See bulo studio's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was SHMUP Creator released?
- SHMUP Creator was released in 2022.
- How many reviews does SHMUP Creator have on Steam?
- SHMUP Creator has 91 Steam reviews, of which 91% are positive.
- Is SHMUP Creator worth playing?
- Steam players rate SHMUP Creator 91% positive across 91 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 SHMUP Creator can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Action titles such as Terraria, Rust, Phasmophobia, Geometry Dash, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, bulo studio's other releases and bulo studio's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where SHMUP Creator 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 SHMUP Creator 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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