Serious Sam's Bogus Detour
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Action indie game Serious Sam's Bogus Detour comes from developer crackshell and publisher devolver-digital. Released in 2017 at $9.99, it has 418 Steam reviews listed as mixed, with the engine unknown.
Overview
Serious Sam's Bogus Detour is a 2017 Action game developed by Crackshell and published by Devolver Digital. On Steam it has gathered 423 player reviews, 82% of them positive, which counts as a mostly positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on linux, windows, and launched at $10. The pairing of developer Crackshell with publisher Devolver Digital 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 19,000 to 44,000 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, Serious Sam's Bogus Detour can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
423
Positive
82%
Steam appid
272620
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.019K to 44K
units (median: 32K)
≈ $109K to $253K modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2017 | +30 |
| price_$10 | -5 |
| positive_82% | 0 |
| final NB | 75 |
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 Serious Sam's Bogus Detour at roughly 19,000 to 44,000 copies, with a median around 32,000, derived from its 423 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $181K 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 $2.99Across 8 observed UTC days from 2026-07-15 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 2026-07-15.
Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.
Where to buy
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Platforms
linuxwindows
Genres
ActionIndie
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Serious Sam's Bogus Detour sold?
- indielist estimates Serious Sam's Bogus Detour has sold between 19,035 and 44,415 units (median 31,725), derived from its 423 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Serious Sam's Bogus Detour?
- Serious Sam's Bogus Detour was developed by Crackshell and published by Devolver Digital.
- Who published Serious Sam's Bogus Detour?
- Serious Sam's Bogus Detour was published by Devolver Digital, developed by Crackshell. See Devolver Digital's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was Serious Sam's Bogus Detour released?
- Serious Sam's Bogus Detour was released in 2017.
- How many reviews does Serious Sam's Bogus Detour have on Steam?
- Serious Sam's Bogus Detour has 423 Steam reviews, of which 82% are positive.
- Is Serious Sam's Bogus Detour worth playing?
- Steam players rate Serious Sam's Bogus Detour 82% positive across 423 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 Serious Sam's Bogus Detour 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, Crackshell's other releases and Devolver Digital's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Serious Sam's Bogus Detour 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 Serious Sam's Bogus Detour 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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