Scribblenauts Unlimited
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This 2012 adventure puzzle game allows players to summon any object by writing its name. Scribblenauts Unlimited boasts 12,284 Steam reviews with a 94% positive rating. It was developed by 5th Cell Media and published by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment.
Overview
Scribblenauts Unlimited is a 2012 Adventure game developed by 5th Cell Media and published by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment. On Steam it has gathered 12,293 player reviews, 94% 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 5th Cell Media with publisher Warner Bros. Interactive 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 738,000 to 1.7 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, Scribblenauts Unlimited can be compared against similar Adventure titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
12,293
Positive
94%
Steam appid
218680
Engine
Unknown
Sales estimate
vv1.0738K to 1.7M
units (median: 1.2M)
≈ $8.4M to $19.7M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2012 | +30 |
| price_$20 | 0 |
| positive_94% | +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 Scribblenauts Unlimited at roughly 738,000 to 1.7 million copies, with a median around 1.2 million, derived from its 12,293 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $14.0M 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 $12.44Over the last 90 days the price ranged from $12.44 to $19.99, averaging $18.70 across 3 discount windows, with a historical low of $12.44 on 2026-05-08.
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Where to buy
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Platforms
windows
Tags
PuzzleCasualAdventureSandboxFamily FriendlySingleplayer2DFunnyComedyOpen WorldCuteEducationStrategyFantasyModdablePlatformerReplay ValueMultiplayerActionIndie
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Scribblenauts Unlimited sold?
- indielist estimates Scribblenauts Unlimited has sold between 737,580 and 1,721,020 units (median 1,229,300), derived from its 12,293 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter vv1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Scribblenauts Unlimited?
- Scribblenauts Unlimited was developed by 5th Cell Media and published by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment.
- When was Scribblenauts Unlimited released?
- Scribblenauts Unlimited was released in 2012.
- How many reviews does Scribblenauts Unlimited have on Steam?
- Scribblenauts Unlimited has 12,293 Steam reviews, of which 94% are positive.
Ecosystem
indielist positions Scribblenauts Unlimited within the Adventure segment so players can surface comparable titles by shared tags and genre rather than by storefront promotion. On the developer side, 5th Cell Media's other releases and Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Scribblenauts Unlimited 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 Scribblenauts Unlimited 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.