ITEM42

Profile updated Sep 2026

ITEM42 is the developer behind PERISH, with 1 title on Steam and 363 total reviews. The indielist catalog lists PERISH as its best-known game, and Action as the dominant genre for ITEM42 games among Action developers.

ITEM42 is an indie game studio. indielist tracks 1 title by ITEM42, together holding 364 Steam reviews. Its most-reviewed game is PERISH, which holds 364 Steam reviews (2023). Across its catalog the studio has worked with 1 publisher, including HandyGames. indielist tracks releases from ITEM42 starting in 2023. This profile sits inside indielist's relationship graph of studios, publishers, and games, so players can find more titles from the same team, developers can compare portfolios and team sizes against peers, and investors can trace which publishers and genres the studio works across. Where Steam review data is available, indielist also publishes a transparent, white-box sales estimate for each of the studio's games, showing the full Boxleiter factor breakdown rather than a single black-box number, so the commercial picture behind ITEM42 can be audited rather than taken on trust.

On the business side, ITEM42 has shipped with 1 publisher (HandyGames), and indielist maps each of those relationships as an edge in its studio-to-publisher-to-game graph. That matters to two audiences in particular: an investor can trace which labels have backed this studio and how that roster has changed over time, while a developer can see which publishers are already comfortable signing work in the studio's genres before deciding where to send a pitch. This is the kind of sourcing intelligence that is slow and tedious to reconstruct from Steam store pages alone, because the storefront never exposes who introduced whom. Each linked publisher page in turn lists its full roster, deal tier, and current submission status, so the network around ITEM42 can be walked outward in either direction rather than read as a flat, disconnected list.