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Casual indie game BidKing launched in 2026 from developer mindsurge-network-games and publisher elegoose-games. It has 21,514 Steam reviews at 35% positive, a mixed reception, and a budget $2.99 initial price.
Overview
BidKing is a 2026 Casual game developed by MindSurge Network & Games and published by Elegoose Games. On Steam it has gathered 21,674 player reviews, 33% of them positive, which counts as a mixed reception among indie titles in the Casual category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $3. The pairing of developer MindSurge Network & Games with publisher Elegoose Games is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Casual projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 195,000 to 455,000 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, BidKing can be compared against similar Casual titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
21,674
Positive
33%
Steam appid
4128580
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.0195K to 455K
units (median: 325K)
≈ $333K to $777K modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2026 | -10 |
| price_$3 | -20 |
| positive_33% | -10 |
| genre_Casual | -15 |
| final NB | 15 |
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 BidKing at roughly 195,000 to 455,000 copies, with a median around 325,000, derived from its 21,674 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $555K 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
41 observed days · window low $1.49Across 41 observed UTC days from 2026-06-12 to 2026-07-22, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $1.49 to $2.99. The tracked-window low was $1.49 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$2.99 Buy
- Green Man Gaming
- Fanatical
- Humble Store
- GOG.com
Latest tracked store observations (2026-07-22 08:33 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
Genres
CasualIndieMassively MultiplayerSimulationSportsStrategy
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has BidKing sold?
- indielist estimates BidKing has sold between 195,066 and 455,154 units (median 325,110), derived from its 21,674 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed BidKing?
- BidKing was developed by MindSurge Network & Games and published by Elegoose Games.
- Who published BidKing?
- BidKing was published by Elegoose Games, developed by MindSurge Network & Games. See Elegoose Games's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was BidKing released?
- BidKing was released in 2026.
- How many reviews does BidKing have on Steam?
- BidKing has 21,674 Steam reviews, of which 33% are positive.
- Is BidKing worth playing?
- Steam players rate BidKing 33% positive across 21,674 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 BidKing can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Casual titles such as Garry's Mod, Wallpaper Engine, Factorio, Balatro, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, MindSurge Network & Games's other releases and Elegoose Games's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where BidKing 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 BidKing page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Casual 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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