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An indie game at the budget $5.99 tier, Trainee Death Simulator comes from developer and publisher bone-nail. Released in 2024, it has 1,725 Steam reviews with 93% positive, a very positive signal for players comparing low-cost indie releases.
Overview
Trainee Death Simulator is a 2024 Indie game developed by Bone Nail and published by Bone Nail. On Steam it has gathered 1,725 player reviews, 93% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Indie category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $6. The pairing of developer Bone Nail with publisher Bone Nail is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Indie projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 57,000 to 133,000 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, Trainee Death Simulator can be compared against similar Indie titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
1,725
Positive
93%
Steam appid
3188550
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.057K to 133K
units (median: 95K)
≈ $195K to $454K 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_93% | +10 |
| final NB | 55 |
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 Trainee Death Simulator at roughly 57,000 to 133,000 copies, with a median around 95,000, derived from its 1,725 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $325K 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
8 observed days · window low $5.99Across 8 observed UTC days from 2026-07-15 to 2026-07-22, 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
- Fanatical
- Humble Store
- GOG.com
Latest tracked store observations (2026-07-22 07:58 UTC), cheapest first. Prices may have changed since observation. Some are affiliate links — we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. Learn more.
Platforms
windows
Genres
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Trainee Death Simulator sold?
- indielist estimates Trainee Death Simulator has sold between 56,925 and 132,825 units (median 94,875), derived from its 1,725 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Trainee Death Simulator?
- Trainee Death Simulator was developed by Bone Nail and published by Bone Nail.
- Who published Trainee Death Simulator?
- Trainee Death Simulator was published by Bone Nail, developed by Bone Nail. See Bone Nail's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was Trainee Death Simulator released?
- Trainee Death Simulator was released in 2024.
- How many reviews does Trainee Death Simulator have on Steam?
- Trainee Death Simulator has 1,725 Steam reviews, of which 93% are positive.
- Is Trainee Death Simulator worth playing?
- Steam players rate Trainee Death Simulator 93% positive across 1,725 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 Trainee Death Simulator can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Indie titles such as Stardew Valley, Euro Truck Simulator 2, Project Zomboid, Undertale, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Bone Nail's other releases and Bone Nail's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Trainee Death Simulator 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 Trainee Death Simulator page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Indie 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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