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Action indie game Dead Pixels launched in 2012 from developer and publisher CSR-Studios. It has 2,423 Steam reviews at 87% positive, a very positive signal for a budget $2.99 release.
Overview
Dead Pixels is a 2012 Action game developed by CSR-Studios and published by CSR-Studios. On Steam it has gathered 1,986 player reviews, 87% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on linux, windows, and launched at $3. The pairing of developer CSR-Studios with publisher CSR-Studios 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 83,000 to 195,000 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, Dead Pixels can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
1,986
Positive
87%
Steam appid
222980
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.083K to 195K
units (median: 139K)
≈ $142K to $332K modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2012 | +30 |
| price_$3 | -20 |
| positive_87% | +10 |
| final NB | 70 |
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 Dead Pixels at roughly 83,000 to 195,000 copies, with a median around 139,000, derived from its 1,986 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $237K 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
6 observed days · window low $2.99Across 6 observed UTC days from 2026-07-17 to 2026-07-22, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $2.99 to $2.99. The tracked-window low was $2.99 on 2026-07-17.
Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.
Where to buy
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Platforms
linuxwindows
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Dead Pixels sold?
- indielist estimates Dead Pixels has sold between 83,412 and 194,628 units (median 139,020), derived from its 1,986 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Dead Pixels?
- Dead Pixels was developed by CSR-Studios and published by CSR-Studios.
- Who published Dead Pixels?
- Dead Pixels was published by CSR-Studios, developed by CSR-Studios. See CSR-Studios's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was Dead Pixels released?
- Dead Pixels was released in 2012.
- How many reviews does Dead Pixels have on Steam?
- Dead Pixels has 1,986 Steam reviews, of which 87% are positive.
- Is Dead Pixels worth playing?
- Steam players rate Dead Pixels 87% positive across 1,986 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 Dead Pixels 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, CSR-Studios's other releases and CSR-Studios's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Dead Pixels 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 Dead Pixels 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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