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Indie game 198X comes from developer and publisher hi-bit-studios, positioned as a budget release at $9.99. Released in 2019, it has 2,153 Steam reviews with 76% positive sentiment, giving buyers a clear signal of mostly positive reception.
Overview
198X is a 2019 Indie game developed by Hi-Bit Studios and published by Hi-Bit Studios. On Steam it has gathered 604 player reviews, 76% of them positive, which counts as a mostly positive reception among indie titles in the Indie category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $10. The pairing of developer Hi-Bit Studios with publisher Hi-Bit Studios 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 22,000 to 51,000 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, 198X can be compared against similar Indie titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
604
Positive
76%
Steam appid
1086010
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.022K to 51K
units (median: 36K)
≈ $124K to $290K modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2019 | +15 |
| price_$10 | -5 |
| positive_76% | 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 198X at roughly 22,000 to 51,000 copies, with a median around 36,000, derived from its 604 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $207K 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 $9.99Across 6 observed UTC days from 2026-07-17 to 2026-07-22, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $9.99 to $9.99. The tracked-window low was $9.99 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
Indie
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has 198X sold?
- indielist estimates 198X has sold between 21,744 and 50,736 units (median 36,240), derived from its 604 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed 198X?
- 198X was developed by Hi-Bit Studios and published by Hi-Bit Studios.
- Who published 198X?
- 198X was published by Hi-Bit Studios, developed by Hi-Bit Studios. See Hi-Bit Studios's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was 198X released?
- 198X was released in 2019.
- How many reviews does 198X have on Steam?
- 198X has 604 Steam reviews, of which 76% are positive.
- Is 198X worth playing?
- Steam players rate 198X 76% 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 198X 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, Hi-Bit Studios's other releases and Hi-Bit Studios's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where 198X 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 198X 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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