Beat Hazard

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Beat Hazard

Short description

Experience your music collection like never before with this intense music driven arcade shooter. Each of your songs will have its own unique ebb and flow based on the music.

Developer
Cold Beam Games
Publisher
Cold Beam Games
Release
Thu, Apr 15, 2010
Price
$9.99
Reviews
5,069
Positive
95%
Followers
8,279
Owners (estimated)
500K – 1M
Concurrent players
4
Genres
Action, Casual, Indie
Features
Multi-player, Co-op, Shared/Split Screen, Cross-Platform Multiplayer, Full controller support, Steam Trading Cards, Steam Leaderboards, Remote Play Together
Tags
Rhythm Music-Based Procedural Generation Twin Stick Shooter Bullet Hell Shoot 'Em Up Music 2D Space Indie Action Arcade Shooter Casual Colorful Co-op Local Co-Op Multiplayer Atmospheric Singleplayer Replay Value
Revenue (estimated, gross)~$2.1msomewhere between $927k and $9.1m · roughly 101K–1M copies

Review count and SteamSpy's owner range disagree, so the band is widened to cover both rather than picking a favourite. Multiplied by $9.14, the average price these copies actually sold for — weighted from the price history rather than taken from the $9.99 launch price. That is 9% below list price on average. Before Steam's cut, VAT and refunds. How these numbers are calculated.

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History

12 data points since Jul 27, 2026. Gaps mean nothing changed — the value carries forward.

Revenue (est.) ~$2.1m → ~$2.1m
Reviews 5,066 → 5,069
Followers 8,281 → 8,279
Concurrent players 4 → 4
Price $9.99 → $9.99
Positive reviews 95.4% → 95.4%

The revenue curve is an estimate, not a measurement. It is the only calculated series here: each interval takes the review growth of that period, multiplies it by the sales-per-review factor and by the price actually charged at the time, and adds the result to the running total. That is why it climbs more slowly through discount periods than the review curve next to it. The last point is the same figure quoted above — gross, before Steam's cut, VAT and refunds. How these numbers are calculated.

The blurred area is the rest of the history. 394 further data points reach back to Oct 1, 2010 — your plan shows the last 90 days of it. How far each series in particular reaches is written on its own chart; not every one of them goes back that far. The shape in the blurred area is decoration, not data: the figures are not in this page at all. Plus unlocks the complete series.

The dashed line marks Jul 28, 2026, when steamlense started measuring. Everything to its left was backfilled from public sources — monthly review counts from Steam, price changes from IsThereAnyDeal, monthly player averages from SteamCharts. Those are monthly figures, so the curve is coarser there — one point a month instead of one a day.

Lowest recorded price: $0.99 on Apr 11, 2025.

How crowded is this niche?

How full the niche around Beat Hazard is — measured on the tags it leads with, against every other combination on Steam.

±?? Rhythm + Music-Based Procedural Generation + Twin Stick Shooter

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Similar games that found an audience

Games sharing at least 3 of this title's leading tags, with enough reviews to have gone somewhere. Ranked by how much they overlap, not by how big they are. − missing and + extra mark the tags each one does not share with Beat Hazard. Studio counts the titles that developer has released — the closest thing to production scale that public data allows. It is not a budget, and nobody publishes those.

Image Name Studio Shared Tag difference Price Reviews Positive Released Revenue (estimated)
Beat Hazard 3 Beat Hazard 3 Cold Beam Games 4 titles 5 − Shoot 'Em Up + Rogue-like $19.99 581 84% Sat, Jun 22, 2024 $471k
$360k – $837k
BIT.TRIP FATE BIT.TRIP FATE Gaijin Games 6 titles 4 − Music-Based Procedural Generation − Twin Stick Shooter + Action + Indie $9.99 115 66% Thu, Jul 11, 2013 $45k
$20k – $436k
Vectorium Vectorium IndigoBlue Game Studio 3 titles 4 − Music-Based Procedural Generation − Music + Shooter + Arcade $4.99 50 74% Wed, May 02, 2018 $11k
$5k – $19k
Just Shapes & Beats Just Shapes & Beats Berzerk Studio 4 titles 3 − Music-Based Procedural Generation − Twin Stick Shooter − Shoot 'Em Up + Great Soundtrack + Difficult + Multiplayer $19.99
$11.99
40%
best price ever
24,177 98% Thu, May 31, 2018 $20.4m
$18.7m – $36.2m
AudioSurf AudioSurf Dylan Fitterer 4 titles 3 − Twin Stick Shooter − Bullet Hell − Shoot 'Em Up + Indie + Casual + Arcade $9.99 8,889 96% Fri, Feb 15, 2008 $3.6m
$1.6m – $17.8m

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