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Indie gameplay from Hypnohead, positioned with tinyBuild as publisher. Released in 2025, The King is Watching has 9,723 Steam reviews with an 89% positive rating, marked Very Positive, and launched at an initial price of $14.99.
Overview
The King is Watching is a 2025 Indie game developed by Hypnohead and published by tinyBuild. On Steam it has gathered 9,766 player reviews, 89% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Indie category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $15. The pairing of developer Hypnohead with publisher tinyBuild is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Indie projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 293,000 to 684,000 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, The King is Watching can be compared against similar Indie titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
9,766
Positive
89%
Steam appid
2753900
Engine
Unknown
Sales estimate
vv1.0293K to 684K
units (median: 488K)
≈ $2.5M to $5.9M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2025 | -10 |
| price_$15 | 0 |
| positive_89% | +10 |
| final NB | 50 |
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 The King is Watching at roughly 293,000 to 684,000 copies, with a median around 488,000, derived from its 9,766 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $4.2M 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 $8.49Over the last 90 days the price ranged from $8.49 to $14.99, averaging $13.98 across 2 discount windows, with a historical low of $8.49 on 2026-03-26.
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Where to buy
Affiliate disclosure- Steam reference -35%$9.74 Buy
- Green Man Gaming$14.99 Buy
- Humble Store$14.99 Buy
- Fanatical
- GOG.com
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Platforms
windows
Genres
IndieStrategy
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has The King is Watching sold?
- indielist estimates The King is Watching has sold between 292,980 and 683,620 units (median 488,300), derived from its 9,766 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter vv1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed The King is Watching?
- The King is Watching was developed by Hypnohead and published by tinyBuild.
- When was The King is Watching released?
- The King is Watching was released in 2025.
- How many reviews does The King is Watching have on Steam?
- The King is Watching has 9,766 Steam reviews, of which 89% are positive.
Ecosystem
indielist positions The King is Watching within the Indie segment so players can surface comparable titles by shared tags and genre rather than by storefront promotion. On the developer side, Hypnohead's other releases and tinyBuild's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where The King is Watching 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 The King is Watching page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Indie 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.