Call of Cthulhu®
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This 2018 adventure game blends Lovecraftian horror and detective gameplay. It has garnered 13,620 Steam reviews with a "mostly positive" rating. Developed by Cyanide Studio and published by Focus Entertainment, it explores psychological horror themes.
Overview
Call of Cthulhu® is a 2018 Adventure game developed by Cyanide Studio and published by Focus Entertainment. On Steam it has gathered 13,646 player reviews, 79% of them positive, which counts as a mostly positive reception among indie titles in the Adventure category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $20. The pairing of developer Cyanide Studio with publisher Focus Entertainment is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Adventure projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 614,000 to 1.4 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, Call of Cthulhu® can be compared against similar Adventure titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
13,646
Positive
79%
Steam appid
399810
Engine
Unknown
Sales estimate
vv1.0614K to 1.4M
units (median: 1.0M)
≈ $7.0M to $16.4M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2018 | +15 |
| price_$20 | 0 |
| positive_79% | 0 |
| genre_Adventure | +10 |
| final NB | 75 |
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 Call of Cthulhu® at roughly 614,000 to 1.4 million copies, with a median around 1.0 million, derived from its 13,646 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $11.7M 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 $10.73Over the last 90 days the price ranged from $10.73 to $19.99, averaging $18.47 across 2 discount windows, with a historical low of $10.73 on 2026-03-26.
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Where to buy
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Platforms
windows
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Call of Cthulhu® sold?
- indielist estimates Call of Cthulhu® has sold between 614,070 and 1,432,830 units (median 1,023,450), derived from its 13,646 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter vv1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Call of Cthulhu®?
- Call of Cthulhu® was developed by Cyanide Studio and published by Focus Entertainment.
- When was Call of Cthulhu® released?
- Call of Cthulhu® was released in 2018.
- How many reviews does Call of Cthulhu® have on Steam?
- Call of Cthulhu® has 13,646 Steam reviews, of which 79% are positive.
Ecosystem
indielist positions Call of Cthulhu® within the Adventure segment so players can surface comparable titles by shared tags and genre rather than by storefront promotion. On the developer side, Cyanide Studio's other releases and Focus Entertainment's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Call of Cthulhu® 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 Call of Cthulhu® page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Adventure 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.