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Outer Wilds, released in 2019, is an exploration adventure game. It has over 50,000 Steam reviews with 96% positive sentiment. Published by Annapurna Interactive, this title focuses on mystery and space exploration.
Overview
Outer Wilds is a 2020 Action game developed by Mobius Digital and published by Annapurna Interactive. On Steam it has gathered 85,305 player reviews, 96% of them positive, which counts as a overwhelmingly positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $25. The pairing of developer Mobius Digital with publisher Annapurna Interactive is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Action projects reach the market. indielist's white-box model estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 4.1 million to 9.6 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, Outer Wilds can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
85,305
Positive
96%
Steam appid
753640
Engine
n/a
Sales estimate
vv1.04.1M to 9.6M
units (median: 6.8M)
≈ $58.4M to $136.4M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for Outer Wilds at roughly 4.1 million to 9.6 million copies, with a median around 6.8 million, derived from its 85,305 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter model (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $97.4M 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 $14.89Over the last 90 days the price ranged from $14.89 to $24.99, averaging $23.99 across 3 discount windows, with a historical low of $14.89 on 2026-03-11.
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Where to buy
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- Fanatical -10%$24.03 Buy
- Humble Store$24.99 Buy
- Green Man Gaming
- GOG.com
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Platforms
windows
Tags
ExplorationSpaceMysteryStory RichAdventureGreat SoundtrackAtmosphericPuzzleOpen WorldSingleplayerIndieSci-fiHorrorFirst-PersonBeautifulPsychological HorrorEpic3DSimulationAction
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Outer Wilds sold?
- indielist estimates Outer Wilds has sold between 4,094,640 and 9,554,160 units (median 6,824,400), derived from its 85,305 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter vv1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Outer Wilds?
- Outer Wilds was developed by Mobius Digital and published by Annapurna Interactive.
- When was Outer Wilds released?
- Outer Wilds was released in 2020.
- How many reviews does Outer Wilds have on Steam?
- Outer Wilds has 85,305 Steam reviews, of which 96% are positive.
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Outer Wilds sold?
- indielist estimates Outer Wilds has sold between 4,094,640 and 9,554,160 units (median 6,824,400), derived from its 85,305 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter vv1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Outer Wilds?
- Outer Wilds was developed by Mobius Digital and published by Annapurna Interactive.
- When was Outer Wilds released?
- Outer Wilds was released in 2020.
- How many reviews does Outer Wilds have on Steam?
- Outer Wilds has 85,305 Steam reviews, of which 96% are positive.
Ecosystem
indielist positions Outer Wilds within the Action segment so players can surface comparable titles by shared tags and genre rather than by storefront promotion. On the developer side, Mobius Digital's other releases and Annapurna Interactive's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Outer Wilds 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 Outer Wilds page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Action 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.
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