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This 2026 action-adventure RPG, Dread Trials, offers players a challenging experience. With 108 Steam reviews already posted, it signals strong early interest. The developer slug is currently unknown.
Overview
Dread Trials is a 2026 Action game developed by Hitbear Studio and published by Hitbear Studio. On Steam it has gathered 148 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 $16. The pairing of developer Hitbear Studio with publisher Hitbear 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 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, Dread Trials can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
148
Positive
83%
Steam appid
854080
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
38
Historical snapshot ·
Sales estimate
v1.04K to 8K
units (median: 6K)
≈ $32K to $76K modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2026 | -10 |
| price_$16 | 0 |
| positive_83% | 0 |
| final NB | 40 |
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 Dread Trials at roughly 4,000 to 8,000 copies, with a median around 6,000, derived from its 148 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $54K 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 $15.99Across 12 observed UTC days from 2026-05-31 to 2026-07-24, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $15.99 to $15.99. The tracked-window low was $15.99 on 2026-05-31.
Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.
Where to buy
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Platforms
windows
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Dread Trials sold?
- indielist estimates Dread Trials has sold between 3,552 and 8,288 units (median 5,920), derived from its 148 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Dread Trials?
- Dread Trials was developed by Hitbear Studio and published by Hitbear Studio.
- Who published Dread Trials?
- Dread Trials was published by Hitbear Studio, developed by Hitbear Studio. See Hitbear Studio's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was Dread Trials released?
- Dread Trials was released in 2026.
- How many reviews does Dread Trials have on Steam?
- Dread Trials has 148 Steam reviews, of which 83% are positive.
- Is Dread Trials worth playing?
- Steam players rate Dread Trials 83% positive across 148 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 Dread Trials 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, Hitbear Studio's other releases and Hitbear Studio's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Dread Trials 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 Dread Trials 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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