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Action indie game Flamebreak launched in 2015 from Nimbly Games, with the developer also listed as publisher. It has 444 Steam reviews marked mixed and an initial $9.99 price, placing it in the budget action segment.
Overview
Flamebreak is a 2015 Action game developed by Nimbly Games and published by Nimbly Games. On Steam it has gathered 447 player reviews, 94% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on linux, mac, windows, and launched at $10. The pairing of developer Nimbly Games with publisher Nimbly Games 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 23,000 to 53,000 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, Flamebreak can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
447
Positive
94%
Steam appid
399640
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.023K to 53K
units (median: 38K)
≈ $130K to $304K modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2015 | +30 |
| price_$10 | -5 |
| positive_94% | +10 |
| final NB | 85 |
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 Flamebreak at roughly 23,000 to 53,000 copies, with a median around 38,000, derived from its 447 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $217K 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 $9.99Across 8 observed UTC days from 2026-07-15 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 2026-07-15.
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
linuxmacwindows
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Flamebreak sold?
- indielist estimates Flamebreak has sold between 22,797 and 53,193 units (median 37,995), derived from its 447 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Flamebreak?
- Flamebreak was developed by Nimbly Games and published by Nimbly Games.
- Who published Flamebreak?
- Flamebreak was published by Nimbly Games, developed by Nimbly Games. See Nimbly Games's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was Flamebreak released?
- Flamebreak was released in 2015.
- How many reviews does Flamebreak have on Steam?
- Flamebreak has 447 Steam reviews, of which 94% are positive.
- Is Flamebreak worth playing?
- Steam players rate Flamebreak 94% positive across 447 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 Flamebreak 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, Nimbly Games's other releases and Nimbly Games's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Flamebreak 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 Flamebreak 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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