Sleeping Dogs: Definitive Edition
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Action-focused 2014 release from United Front Games, published by Square Enix. Sleeping Dogs: Definitive Edition has 68,277 Steam reviews with 94% positive sentiment, a very positive signal for buyers comparing action games at its $19.99 initial price.
Overview
Sleeping Dogs: Definitive Edition is a 2014 Action game developed by United Front Games and published by Square Enix. On Steam it has gathered 68,345 player reviews, 94% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on mac, windows, and launched at $20. The pairing of developer United Front Games with publisher Square Enix 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 method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 3.7 million to 8.6 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, Sleeping Dogs: Definitive Edition can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
68,345
Positive
94%
Steam appid
307690
Engine
Unknown
Sales estimate
vv1.03.7M to 8.6M
units (median: 6.2M)
≈ $42.1M to $98.3M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2014 | +30 |
| price_$20 | 0 |
| positive_94% | +10 |
| final NB | 90 |
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 Sleeping Dogs: Definitive Edition at roughly 3.7 million to 8.6 million copies, with a median around 6.2 million, derived from its 68,345 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $70.2M 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 $10.29Over the last 90 days the price ranged from $10.29 to $19.99, averaging $18.74 across 2 discount windows, with a historical low of $10.29 on 2026-03-28.
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Where to buy
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Platforms
macwindows
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Sleeping Dogs: Definitive Edition sold?
- indielist estimates Sleeping Dogs: Definitive Edition has sold between 3,690,630 and 8,611,470 units (median 6,151,050), derived from its 68,345 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter vv1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Sleeping Dogs: Definitive Edition?
- Sleeping Dogs: Definitive Edition was developed by United Front Games and published by Square Enix.
- When was Sleeping Dogs: Definitive Edition released?
- Sleeping Dogs: Definitive Edition was released in 2014.
- How many reviews does Sleeping Dogs: Definitive Edition have on Steam?
- Sleeping Dogs: Definitive Edition has 68,345 Steam reviews, of which 94% are positive.
Ecosystem
indielist positions Sleeping Dogs: Definitive Edition within the Action segment so players can surface comparable titles by shared tags and genre rather than by storefront promotion. On the developer side, United Front Games's other releases and Square Enix's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Sleeping Dogs: Definitive Edition 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 Sleeping Dogs: Definitive Edition 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.