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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 12,020 player reviews, 83% 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 505,000 to 1.2 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
12,020
Positive
83%
Steam appid
792300
Engine
Unknown
Sales estimate
vv1.0505K to 1.2M
units (median: 841K)
≈ $7.2M to $16.8M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2019 | +15 |
| price_$25 | +5 |
| positive_83% | 0 |
| final NB | 70 |
Confidence range: median × [0.6, 1.4]. Boundary protection: NB ∈ [15, 150].
Methodology & limitations
Sales estimates use a multi-factor Boxleiter method against public Steam review counts.
They are not authoritative sales data. Actual sales can deviate by
±50% in either direction. Free-to-play games, deeply discounted titles, and games
with heavy bundle distribution have larger error margins. Algorithm version
v1.0.
indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for The Beast Inside at roughly 505,000 to 1.2 million copies, with a median around 841,000, derived from its 12,020 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $12.0M 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
90d · low $16.15Over the last 90 days the price ranged from $16.15 to $24.99, averaging $23.24 across 3 discount windows, with a historical low of $16.15 on 2026-05-06.
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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 504,840 and 1,177,960 units (median 841,400), derived from its 12,020 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter vv1.0 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.
- 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 12,020 Steam reviews, of which 83% are positive.
Ecosystem
indielist positions The Beast Inside within the Action segment so players can surface comparable titles by shared tags and genre rather than by storefront promotion. 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.