Straight Back Games

Profile updated May 2026

Straight Back Games is the developer behind DEVOUR, with 1 title(s) on Steam and 87,413 total reviews. Their dominant genre is Indie.

Straight Back Games is an indie game studio. indielist tracks 2 titles by Straight Back Games, together holding 71,129 Steam reviews. Its most-reviewed game is DEVOUR, which holds 68,921 Steam reviews (2021). Across its catalog the studio has worked with 1 publisher, including Straight Back Games. indielist tracks releases from Straight Back Games starting in 2021. That averages about 35,565 Steam reviews per title. 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 Straight Back Games can be audited rather than taken on trust.

Across its 2 tracked titles released between 2021 and 2024, Straight Back Games has accumulated 71,129 Steam reviews, an average of about 36,000 per game, and its most-reviewed entries are DEVOUR, LASERS. Review counts are the most reliable public proxy indielist has for an indie studio's reach, since raw sales are almost never disclosed, so this spread is a fair snapshot of how widely the studio's work has landed. Developers can read these figures as a benchmark: a studio of this output and review volume is a useful reference point when projecting where a comparable project might end up, and indielist shows the white-box sales estimate behind every one of those titles, so the comparison rests on visible Boxleiter math, factor by factor, rather than on a reputation or a single black-box number.

On the business side, Straight Back Games has shipped with 1 publisher (Straight Back Games), 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 Straight Back Games can be walked outward in either direction rather than read as a flat, disconnected list.