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Indie-focused gameplay defines Griftlands, a 2021 release with a $19.99 initial price. On Steam it has 14,372 reviews with 94% positive sentiment, and it is listed as self-published by an unknown developer.
Overview
Griftlands is a 2021 Indie game developed by Klei Entertainment and published by Klei Entertainment. On Steam it has gathered 14,376 player reviews, 94% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Indie category. The game is available on linux, mac, windows, and launched at $20. The pairing of developer Klei Entertainment with publisher Klei Entertainment is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Indie projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 647,000 to 1.5 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, Griftlands can be compared against similar Indie titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
14,376
Positive
94%
Steam appid
601840
Engine
Unknown
Sales estimate
vv1.0647K to 1.5M
units (median: 1.1M)
≈ $7.4M to $17.2M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2021 | +15 |
| price_$20 | 0 |
| positive_94% | +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 Griftlands at roughly 647,000 to 1.5 million copies, with a median around 1.1 million, derived from its 14,376 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $12.3M 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 $13.28Over the last 90 days the price ranged from $13.28 to $19.99, averaging $19.22 across 3 discount windows, with a historical low of $13.28 on 2026-05-30.
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Where to buy
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Platforms
linuxmacwindows
Genres
Indie
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Griftlands sold?
- indielist estimates Griftlands has sold between 646,920 and 1,509,480 units (median 1,078,200), derived from its 14,376 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter vv1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Griftlands?
- Griftlands was developed by Klei Entertainment and published by Klei Entertainment.
- When was Griftlands released?
- Griftlands was released in 2021.
- How many reviews does Griftlands have on Steam?
- Griftlands has 14,376 Steam reviews, of which 94% are positive.
Ecosystem
indielist positions Griftlands within the Indie segment so players can surface comparable titles by shared tags and genre rather than by storefront promotion. On the developer side, Klei Entertainment's other releases and Klei Entertainment's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Griftlands 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 Griftlands page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Indie 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.