The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
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This 2023 action title challenges players with asymmetrical multiplayer combat. With over 18,916 Steam reviews, the game offers a distinct horror experience.
Overview
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre is a 2023 Action game developed by Sumo Digital and published by Gun Interactive. On Steam it has gathered 19,248 player reviews, 66% of them positive, which counts as a mixed-to-positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $15. The pairing of developer Sumo Digital with publisher Gun Interactive 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 462,000 to 1.1 million 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, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
19,248
Positive
66%
Steam appid
1433140
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
410
Historical snapshot ·
Sales estimate
v1.0462K to 1.1M
units (median: 770K)
≈ $4.0M to $9.2M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2023 | 0 |
| price_$15 | 0 |
| positive_66% | -10 |
| 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 The Texas Chain Saw Massacre at roughly 462,000 to 1.1 million copies, with a median around 770,000, derived from its 19,248 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $6.6M 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
53 observed days · window low $3.74Across 53 observed UTC days from 2026-05-31 to 2026-07-22, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $3.74 to $14.99. The tracked-window low was $3.74 on 2026-06-26.
Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.
Where to buy
Affiliate disclosure- Steam reference$14.99 Buy
- Green Man Gaming
- Fanatical
- Humble Store
- GOG.com
Latest tracked store observations (2026-07-22 19:14 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
Tags
HorrorMultiplayerSurvival HorrorGoreTeam-BasedPvPThird PersonSurvivalActionStealthViolentAsynchronous MultiplayerBloodCinematic3DAtmosphericIndiePsychological HorrorNudityStrategy
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has The Texas Chain Saw Massacre sold?
- indielist estimates The Texas Chain Saw Massacre has sold between 461,952 and 1,077,888 units (median 769,920), derived from its 19,248 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed The Texas Chain Saw Massacre?
- The Texas Chain Saw Massacre was developed by Sumo Digital and published by Gun Interactive.
- Who published The Texas Chain Saw Massacre?
- The Texas Chain Saw Massacre was published by Gun Interactive, developed by Sumo Digital. See Gun Interactive's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was The Texas Chain Saw Massacre released?
- The Texas Chain Saw Massacre was released in 2023.
- How many reviews does The Texas Chain Saw Massacre have on Steam?
- The Texas Chain Saw Massacre has 19,248 Steam reviews, of which 66% are positive.
- Is The Texas Chain Saw Massacre worth playing?
- Steam players rate The Texas Chain Saw Massacre 66% positive across 19,248 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 The Texas Chain Saw Massacre can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Action titles such as Outlast, Outlast 2, The Beast Inside, The Headliners, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Sumo Digital's other releases and Gun Interactive's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where The Texas Chain Saw Massacre 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 The Texas Chain Saw Massacre 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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