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Action horror game The Beast Inside, released in 2019, blends survival horror and adventure. Developed and published by Illusion Ray, it has garnered 12,016 Steam reviews with an 83% positive rating.
Overview
The Beast Inside is a 2019 Action game developed by Illusion Ray and published by Illusion Ray. On Steam it has gathered 10,452 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 windows, and launched at $25. The pairing of developer Illusion Ray with publisher Illusion Ray 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 439,000 to 1.0 million 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, The Beast Inside can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
10,452
Positive
82%
Steam appid
792300
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.0439K to 1.0M
units (median: 732K)
≈ $6.3M to $14.6M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2019 | +15 |
| price_$25 | +5 |
| positive_82% | 0 |
| 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 The Beast Inside at roughly 439,000 to 1.0 million copies, with a median around 732,000, derived from its 10,452 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $10.4M 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
49 observed days · window low $2.49Across 49 observed UTC days from 2026-06-04 to 2026-07-25, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $2.49 to $2.49. The tracked-window low was $2.49 on 2026-06-04.
Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.
Where to buy
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Platforms
windows
Tags
HorrorAdventureFirst-PersonSurvival HorrorActionMultiplayerSingleplayerPsychological HorrorIndieStory RichSurvivalGoreAtmosphericViolentWalking SimulatorOpen WorldExplorationRealisticGreat SoundtrackQuick-Time Events
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has The Beast Inside sold?
- indielist estimates The Beast Inside has sold between 438,984 and 1,024,296 units (median 731,640), derived from its 10,452 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed The Beast Inside?
- The Beast Inside was developed by Illusion Ray and published by Illusion Ray.
- Who published The Beast Inside?
- The Beast Inside was published by Illusion Ray, developed by Illusion Ray. See Illusion Ray's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was The Beast Inside released?
- The Beast Inside was released in 2019.
- How many reviews does The Beast Inside have on Steam?
- The Beast Inside has 10,452 Steam reviews, of which 82% are positive.
- Is The Beast Inside worth playing?
- Steam players rate The Beast Inside 82% positive across 10,452 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 The Beast Inside can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Action titles such as Visage, Outlast 2, Slender: The Arrival, The Forest, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Illusion Ray's other releases and Illusion Ray's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where The Beast Inside 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 The Beast Inside 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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- T
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