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This 2011 detective adventure game places players in the shoes of an LAPD detective. Investigate crime scenes and interrogate suspects in an open-world Los Angeles. Published by Rockstar Games, it has received 30,567 Steam reviews with 86% positive feedback.
Overview
L.A. Noire is a 2011 Adventure game developed by Team Bondi and published by Rockstar Games. On Steam it has gathered 30,604 player reviews, 86% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Adventure category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $20. The pairing of developer Team Bondi with publisher Rockstar Games 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 1.8 million to 4.3 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, L.A. Noire can be compared against similar Adventure titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
30,604
Positive
86%
Steam appid
110800
Engine
Unknown
Sales estimate
vv1.01.8M to 4.3M
units (median: 3.1M)
≈ $21.0M to $48.9M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2011 | +30 |
| price_$20 | 0 |
| positive_86% | +10 |
| genre_Adventure | +10 |
| final NB | 100 |
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 L.A. Noire at roughly 1.8 million to 4.3 million copies, with a median around 3.1 million, derived from its 30,604 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $34.9M 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 $10.93Over the last 90 days the price ranged from $10.93 to $19.99, averaging $18.69 across 3 discount windows, with a historical low of $10.93 on 2026-04-22.
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Where to buy
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Platforms
windows
Tags
DetectiveCrimeOpen WorldNoirAdventureStory RichMysteryInvestigationThird PersonSingleplayerCinematicActionAtmosphericMatureNudityPuzzleThird-Person ShooterStrategyThriller3D Vision
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has L.A. Noire sold?
- indielist estimates L.A. Noire has sold between 1,836,240 and 4,284,560 units (median 3,060,400), derived from its 30,604 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter vv1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed L.A. Noire?
- L.A. Noire was developed by Team Bondi and published by Rockstar Games.
- When was L.A. Noire released?
- L.A. Noire was released in 2011.
- How many reviews does L.A. Noire have on Steam?
- L.A. Noire has 30,604 Steam reviews, of which 86% are positive.
Ecosystem
indielist positions L.A. Noire within the Adventure segment so players can surface comparable titles by shared tags and genre rather than by storefront promotion. On the developer side, Team Bondi's other releases and Rockstar Games's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where L.A. Noire 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 L.A. Noire 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.