Orwell: Keeping an Eye On You
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A choices-matter adventure built around political surveillance, dystopian investigation, and story-driven decisions. Developed by Osmotic Studios and published by Daedalic Entertainment, it launched in 2016 and has 15,445 Steam reviews at 90% positive.
Overview
Orwell: Keeping an Eye On You is a 2016 Adventure game developed by Osmotic Studios and published by Daedalic Entertainment. On Steam it has gathered 15,458 player reviews, 90% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Adventure category. The game is available on linux, mac, windows, and launched at $10. The pairing of developer Osmotic Studios with publisher Daedalic 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 881,000 to 2.1 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, Orwell: Keeping an Eye On You can be compared against similar Adventure titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
15,458
Positive
90%
Steam appid
491950
Engine
Unknown
Sales estimate
vv1.0881K to 2.1M
units (median: 1.5M)
≈ $5.0M to $11.7M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2016 | +30 |
| price_$10 | -5 |
| positive_90% | +10 |
| genre_Adventure | +10 |
| final NB | 95 |
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 Orwell: Keeping an Eye On You at roughly 881,000 to 2.1 million copies, with a median around 1.5 million, derived from its 15,458 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $8.4M 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 $5.25Over the last 90 days the price ranged from $5.25 to $9.99, averaging $9.25 across 3 discount windows, with a historical low of $5.25 on 2026-05-20.
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Where to buy
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Platforms
linuxmacwindows
Tags
Choices MatterPolitical SimDystopianStory RichIndieSingleplayerDetectiveSimulationInteractive FictionHackingPoliticsPoliticalAdventureMouse onlyAtmosphericVisual NovelEpisodicMysteryPoint & ClickGreat Soundtrack
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Orwell: Keeping an Eye On You sold?
- indielist estimates Orwell: Keeping an Eye On You has sold between 881,106 and 2,055,914 units (median 1,468,510), derived from its 15,458 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter vv1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Orwell: Keeping an Eye On You?
- Orwell: Keeping an Eye On You was developed by Osmotic Studios and published by Daedalic Entertainment.
- When was Orwell: Keeping an Eye On You released?
- Orwell: Keeping an Eye On You was released in 2016.
- How many reviews does Orwell: Keeping an Eye On You have on Steam?
- Orwell: Keeping an Eye On You has 15,458 Steam reviews, of which 90% are positive.
Ecosystem
indielist positions Orwell: Keeping an Eye On You within the Adventure segment so players can surface comparable titles by shared tags and genre rather than by storefront promotion. On the developer side, Osmotic Studios's other releases and Daedalic Entertainment's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Orwell: Keeping an Eye On You 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 Orwell: Keeping an Eye On You 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.