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Heavy Bullets

Terri Vellmann · Devolver Digital · 2014-09-18

Steam

ActionIndie

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: First person

Releases: Sep 18, 2014 (Mac), Sep 18, 2014 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Sep 18, 2014 (Linux)

Heavy Bullets is a randomized FPS dungeon crawler where players make their way through a colorful maze, while protecting themselves from aggressive creatures and malfunctioning security devices. The goal lies at the end of the 8th level, where they must reset the security mainframe to restore order and reap the rewards.

Heavy Bullets is an Action, Indie game released in 2014, priced at $9.99, with an estimated 100,000 .. 200,000 owners and a Very Positive review sentiment (82% of 1568 reviews).

1
playing now
82%
positive of 1.6k reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
80/100
critic score (1 outlets, IGDB)
61/100
IGDB user rating (8 ratings)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$9.99
steam price (US)

1 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 15:00 UTC (census sample)

Heavy Bullets is a roguelike first-person shooter video game developed by Brazil-based indie developer Terri Vellmann and published by Devolver Digital. The game was released for Microsoft Windows, OS X, and Linux on 18 September 2014.

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 1 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 27 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~3/week).
  • · Review velocity down 36% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 12% of 27,701 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-31

Estimated sales: 39k–94k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 1,568 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $1.80 at GreenManGaming (2018-10-18) · bundled 3×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $9.99 · on sale 31 of 54 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
202020172026Week of 2017-12-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2017-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-01-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-02-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2018-02-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2018-03-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-04-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2018-05-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2018-06-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-07-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2018-08-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2018-09-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2018-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-11-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-12-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-01-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2019-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-06-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2019-07-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2019-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-10-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-12-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-01-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2020-02-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-04-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2020-05-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-07-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-09-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-05-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-09-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

302026-09-15 00:00 — 0 players2026-09-16 08:00 — 0 players2026-09-17 16:00 — 0 players2026-09-18 23:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 07:00 — 1 players2026-09-21 15:00 — 0 players2026-09-22 22:00 — 1 players2026-09-24 06:00 — 2 players2026-09-25 13:00 — 0 players2026-09-26 21:00 — 2 players2026-09-28 04:00 — 1 players2026-09-29 12:00 — 1 players2026-09-30 19:00 — 1 players2026-10-02 03:00 — 3 players2026-10-03 10:00 — 0 players2026-10-04 18:00 — 0 players2026-10-06 02:00 — 0 players2026-10-07 09:00 — 0 players2026-10-08 17:00 — 1 players2026-10-10 00:00 — 1 players2026-10-11 08:00 — 1 players2026-10-12 16:00 — 1 players2026-10-13 23:00 — 2 players2026-10-14 15:00 — 1 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$11.09$1.802015-01-012026-09-142015-01-01 — best price $6.692015-02-26 — best price $9.992015-04-27 — best price $3.392015-07-10 — best price $9.992015-10-23 — best price $2.492016-01-04 — best price $9.992016-04-01 — best price $9.992016-09-08 — best price $1.992016-12-22 — best price $2.492017-07-24 — best price $8.492017-11-24 — best price $9.992018-05-11 — best price $1.992018-08-02 — best price $9.992019-01-28 — best price $1.992019-09-02 — best price $9.992020-01-22 — best price $1.992020-09-04 — best price $2.492020-12-01 — best price $9.992021-05-06 — best price $1.992021-10-25 — best price $1.992022-01-27 — best price $1.992022-07-07 — best price $9.992022-12-12 — best price $1.992023-05-08 — best price $9.992023-09-01 — best price $9.992024-04-15 — best price $1.992024-08-01 — best price $1.992024-12-19 — best price $1.992025-03-27 — best price $1.992025-06-26 — best price $1.992025-09-19 — best price $9.992025-12-04 — best price $1.992026-02-26 — best price $9.992026-05-28 — best price $9.992026-08-15 — best price $1.992026-09-14 — best price $1.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

1412026-05-30 — 3 pageviews2026-06-03 — 5 pageviews2026-06-07 — 3 pageviews2026-06-11 — 6 pageviews2026-06-15 — 4 pageviews2026-06-19 — 6 pageviews2026-06-23 — 4 pageviews2026-06-27 — 5 pageviews2026-07-01 — 8 pageviews2026-07-05 — 6 pageviews2026-07-09 — 4 pageviews2026-07-13 — 5 pageviews2026-07-17 — 6 pageviews2026-07-21 — 2 pageviews2026-07-25 — 2 pageviews2026-07-29 — 5 pageviews2026-08-02 — 4 pageviews2026-08-06 — 4 pageviews2026-08-10 — 3 pageviews2026-08-14 — 4 pageviews2026-08-18 — 7 pageviews2026-08-22 — 3 pageviews2026-08-26 — 1 pageviews2026-08-30 — 4 pageviews2026-09-03 — 7 pageviews2026-09-07 — 6 pageviews2026-09-11 — 9 pageviews2026-09-15 — 3 pageviews2026-09-19 — 4 pageviews2026-09-23 — 2 pageviews2026-09-27 — 4 pageviews2026-10-01 — 14 pageviews2026-10-05 — 8 pageviews2026-10-08 — 6 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

17
achievements tracked
88.2%
earned "THANKS FOR PLAYING"
5.4%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam Trading CardsPartial Controller SupportSteam LeaderboardsFamily Sharing1 DLC

2 supported languages: English, Portuguese - Brazil

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2014-09-18 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)8,4992%17

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Player tags

FPSIndieRetroActionHorrorShooterDifficultRogue-likeRogue-litePerma Death

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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Similarity via IGDB.

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