BioShock

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BioShock

Short description

BioShock is a shooter unlike any you've ever played, loaded with weapons and tactics never seen. You'll have a complete arsenal at your disposal from simple revolvers to grenade launchers and chemical throwers, but you'll also be forced to genetically modify your DNA to create an even more deadly weapon: you.

Developer
2K Australia, 2K Boston
Publisher
2K
Release
Tue, Aug 21, 2007
Price
$19.99
$4.99
75%
Reviews
25,235
Positive
94%
Followers
36,040
Owners (estimated)
2M – 5M
Concurrent players
44
Genres
Action, RPG
Features
Partial Controller Support
Tags
FPS Atmospheric Story Rich Action Singleplayer Horror Steampunk First-Person Shooter Sci-fi Classic RPG Dystopian Adventure Underwater Immersive Dark Political Great Soundtrack Alternate History
Revenue (estimated, gross)~$34.3msomewhere between $34.3m and $34.7m · roughly 2M–2M copies

Review count and SteamSpy's owner range agree well enough to narrow the estimate down to this band. Multiplied by $17.17, the average price these copies actually sold for — weighted from the price history rather than taken from the $19.99 launch price. That is 14% below list price on average. Before Steam's cut, VAT and refunds. How these numbers are calculated.

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History

78 data points since Aug 1, 2026. Gaps mean nothing changed — the value carries forward.

Revenue (est.) ~$34.2m → ~$34.3m
See data from Oct 2010 with a Plus account
Reviews 25,068 → 25,235
Followers 35,657 → 36,040
Concurrent players 44 → 44
Price $19.99 → $4.99
Positive reviews 94.0% → 93.9%

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. 387 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.

Lowest recorded price: $3.99 on Jun 15, 2015.

How crowded is this niche?

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

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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 BioShock. 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)
BioShock 2 Remastered BioShock 2 Remastered Feral Interactive (Mac) 36 titles +5 6 same tags $19.99
$2.99
85%
best price ever
24,485 73% Thu, Sep 15, 2016 $16.8m
$7.5m – $76.2m
BioShock 2 BioShock 2 Digital Extremes 8 titles +3 6 same tags $19.99
$2.99
85%
best price ever
11,493 88% Tue, Feb 09, 2010 $9.7m
$4.3m – $37.3m
BioShock Infinite BioShock Infinite Irrational Games 5 titles +1 5 − Horror + Steampunk $29.99
$7.49
75%
best price ever
109,866 93% Mon, Mar 25, 2013 $122m
$54.1m – $123m
Metro 2033 Redux Metro 2033 Redux 4A Games 4 titles 5 − Singleplayer + Post-apocalyptic $19.99
$1.99
90%
95,731 91% Mon, Aug 25, 2014 $82.5m
$82.5m – $126m
Metro: Last Light Redux Metro: Last Light Redux 4A Games 4 titles 5 − Singleplayer + Post-apocalyptic $19.99
$1.99
90%
71,982 91% Mon, Aug 25, 2014 $53.5m
$33.1m – $82.7m

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