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Action indie game Ground Zero comes from developer malformation-games and publisher Kwalee. Listed for 2026 with a $19.99 initial price, it has 488 Steam reviews reported at 0% positive, a key risk signal for players comparing new action releases.
Overview
Ground Zero is a 2026 Action game developed by Malformation Games and published by Kwalee. On Steam it has gathered 604 player reviews, 90% 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 $20. The pairing of developer Malformation Games with publisher Kwalee 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 18,000 to 42,000 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, Ground Zero can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
604
Positive
90%
Steam appid
2340130
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.018K to 42K
units (median: 30K)
≈ $207K to $483K modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2026 | -10 |
| price_$20 | 0 |
| positive_90% | +10 |
| final NB | 50 |
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 Ground Zero at roughly 18,000 to 42,000 copies, with a median around 30,000, derived from its 604 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $345K 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 $19.99Across 8 observed UTC days from 2026-07-15 to 2026-07-22, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $19.99 to $19.99. The tracked-window low was $19.99 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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- GOG.com
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Platforms
windows
Genres
ActionIndie
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Ground Zero sold?
- indielist estimates Ground Zero has sold between 18,120 and 42,280 units (median 30,200), derived from its 604 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Ground Zero?
- Ground Zero was developed by Malformation Games and published by Kwalee.
- Who published Ground Zero?
- Ground Zero was published by Kwalee, developed by Malformation Games. See Kwalee's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was Ground Zero released?
- Ground Zero was released in 2026.
- How many reviews does Ground Zero have on Steam?
- Ground Zero has 604 Steam reviews, of which 90% are positive.
- Is Ground Zero worth playing?
- Steam players rate Ground Zero 90% positive across 604 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 Ground Zero 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, Malformation Games's other releases and Kwalee's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Ground Zero 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 Ground Zero 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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