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Action indie game Blackout Z: Slaughterhouse Edition launched in 2017 from developer and publisher nukgames. With 1,939 Steam reviews at 83% positive, it fits a budget hidden-gem profile at its $4.99 initial price.
Overview
Blackout Z: Slaughterhouse Edition is a 2017 Action game developed by NukGames and published by NukGames. On Steam it has gathered 321 player reviews, 83% 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 $5. The pairing of developer NukGames with publisher NukGames 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 12,000 to 27,000 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, Blackout Z: Slaughterhouse Edition can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
321
Positive
83%
Steam appid
729660
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.012K to 27K
units (median: 19K)
≈ $33K to $77K modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2017 | +30 |
| price_$5 | -20 |
| positive_83% | 0 |
| final NB | 60 |
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 Blackout Z: Slaughterhouse Edition at roughly 12,000 to 27,000 copies, with a median around 19,000, derived from its 321 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $55K 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
6 observed days · window low $0.49Across 6 observed UTC days from 2026-07-17 to 2026-07-22, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $0.49 to $0.49. The tracked-window low was $0.49 on 2026-07-17.
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
ActionIndie
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Blackout Z: Slaughterhouse Edition sold?
- indielist estimates Blackout Z: Slaughterhouse Edition has sold between 11,556 and 26,964 units (median 19,260), derived from its 321 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Blackout Z: Slaughterhouse Edition?
- Blackout Z: Slaughterhouse Edition was developed by NukGames and published by NukGames.
- Who published Blackout Z: Slaughterhouse Edition?
- Blackout Z: Slaughterhouse Edition was published by NukGames, developed by NukGames. See NukGames's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was Blackout Z: Slaughterhouse Edition released?
- Blackout Z: Slaughterhouse Edition was released in 2017.
- How many reviews does Blackout Z: Slaughterhouse Edition have on Steam?
- Blackout Z: Slaughterhouse Edition has 321 Steam reviews, of which 83% are positive.
- Is Blackout Z: Slaughterhouse Edition worth playing?
- Steam players rate Blackout Z: Slaughterhouse Edition 83% positive across 321 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 Blackout Z: Slaughterhouse Edition can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Action titles such as Rust, Terraria, Phasmophobia, ARK: Survival Evolved, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, NukGames's other releases and NukGames's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Blackout Z: Slaughterhouse Edition 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 Blackout Z: Slaughterhouse Edition 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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