How many copies has BONEWORKS sold?

indielist estimates BONEWORKS has sold between 1,746,720 and 4,075,680 units (median 2,911,200), derived from its 36,390 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.

Who published BONEWORKS?

BONEWORKS was published by Stress Level Zero, developed by Stress Level Zero. See Stress Level Zero's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.

When was BONEWORKS released?

BONEWORKS was released in 2019.

How many reviews does BONEWORKS have on Steam?

BONEWORKS has 36,390 Steam reviews, of which 92% are positive.

Is BONEWORKS worth playing?

Steam players rate BONEWORKS 92% positive across 36,390 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.

BONEWORKS

Dec 10, 2019 Action $29.99

Developer Stress Level Zero Publisher Stress Level Zero

Profile updated May 2026

BONEWORKS is an action-adventure simulation game released in 2019. It has garnered 34,047 reviews on Steam. The developer is unknown.

BONEWORKS is a 2019 Action game developed by Stress Level Zero and published by Stress Level Zero. On Steam it has gathered 36,390 player reviews, 92% 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 $30. The pairing of developer Stress Level Zero with publisher Stress Level Zero 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 1.7 million to 4.1 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, BONEWORKS can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.

Reviews

36,390

Positive

92%

Steam appid

823500

Engine

Unknown

Players (snapshot)

Historical snapshot · 2026-06-02 22:40 UTC

Sales estimate

v1.0

1.7M to 4.1M

units (median: 2.9M)

≈ $29.9M to $69.8M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)

1.7M median 4.1M

+ How is this calculated?

36,390 reviews × NB(80) = 2,911,200 median units

Factor	Adjustment
base	+50
year_2019	+15
price_$30	+5
positive_92%	+10
final NB	80

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 BONEWORKS at roughly 1.7 million to 4.1 million copies, with a median around 2.9 million, derived from its 36,390 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $49.9M 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 $23.99

Across 53 observed UTC days from 2026-05-31 to 2026-07-22, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $23.99 to $29.99. The tracked-window low was $23.99 on 2026-06-26.

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 BONEWORKS sold?: indielist estimates BONEWORKS has sold between 1,746,720 and 4,075,680 units (median 2,911,200), derived from its 36,390 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
Who developed BONEWORKS?: BONEWORKS was developed by Stress Level Zero and published by Stress Level Zero.
Who published BONEWORKS?: BONEWORKS was published by Stress Level Zero, developed by Stress Level Zero. See Stress Level Zero's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
When was BONEWORKS released?: BONEWORKS was released in 2019.
How many reviews does BONEWORKS have on Steam?: BONEWORKS has 36,390 Steam reviews, of which 92% are positive.
Is BONEWORKS worth playing?: Steam players rate BONEWORKS 92% positive across 36,390 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.

Players looking for games like BONEWORKS can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Action titles such as Ravenfield, The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners, Black Mesa, Blade and Sorcery, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Stress Level Zero's other releases and Stress Level Zero's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where BONEWORKS 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 BONEWORKS 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.

Matched from shared Steam tags and primary genre. Review count breaks ties; it is not a personal recommendation score.