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Bionic Dues is a 2013 indie game from Arcen Games, with Arcen Games also listed as publisher. It has 296 Steam reviews marked mixed, and its $9.99 initial price places it in the budget indie range.
Overview
Bionic Dues is a 2013 Indie game developed by Arcen Games and published by Arcen Games. On Steam it has gathered 994 player reviews, 75% of them positive, which counts as a mostly positive reception among indie titles in the Indie category. The game is available on linux, mac, windows, and launched at $10. The pairing of developer Arcen Games with publisher Arcen Games 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 45,000 to 104,000 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, Bionic Dues can be compared against similar Indie titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
994
Positive
75%
Steam appid
238910
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.045K to 104K
units (median: 75K)
≈ $255K to $596K modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2013 | +30 |
| price_$10 | -5 |
| positive_75% | 0 |
| 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 Bionic Dues at roughly 45,000 to 104,000 copies, with a median around 75,000, derived from its 994 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $425K 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
9 observed days · window low $2.49Across 9 observed UTC days from 2026-07-15 to 2026-07-23, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $2.49 to $2.49. The tracked-window low was $2.49 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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Platforms
linuxmacwindows
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Bionic Dues sold?
- indielist estimates Bionic Dues has sold between 44,730 and 104,370 units (median 74,550), derived from its 994 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Bionic Dues?
- Bionic Dues was developed by Arcen Games and published by Arcen Games.
- Who published Bionic Dues?
- Bionic Dues was published by Arcen Games, developed by Arcen Games. See Arcen Games's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was Bionic Dues released?
- Bionic Dues was released in 2013.
- How many reviews does Bionic Dues have on Steam?
- Bionic Dues has 994 Steam reviews, of which 75% are positive.
- Is Bionic Dues worth playing?
- Steam players rate Bionic Dues 75% positive across 994 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 Bionic Dues 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, Arcen Games's other releases and Arcen Games's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Bionic Dues 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 Bionic Dues 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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