How many copies has A Way Out sold?

indielist estimates A Way Out has sold between 4,887,936 and 11,405,184 units (median 8,146,560), derived from its 101,832 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.

Who published A Way Out?

A Way Out was published by Electronic Arts, developed by Hazelight Studios. See Electronic Arts's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.

When was A Way Out released?

A Way Out was released in 2020.

How many reviews does A Way Out have on Steam?

A Way Out has 101,832 Steam reviews, of which 88% are positive.

Is A Way Out worth playing?

Steam players rate A Way Out 88% positive across 101,832 reviews. indielist doesn't score games editorially; it surfaces public review sentiment and a white-box sales estimate so you can judge reception and reach yourself.

A Way Out

Jun 18, 2020 Action $29.99

Developer Hazelight Studios Publisher Electronic Arts

Profile updated May 2026

Co-operative gameplay defines this title, which requires two players to navigate its narrative. Since its 2020 release, the game has accumulated 25,222 reviews on Steam. It maintains an 88% positive rating, categorizing its performance as very positive within the indie sector.

A Way Out is a 2020 Action game developed by Hazelight Studios and published by Electronic Arts. On Steam it has gathered 101,832 player reviews, 88% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $30. The pairing of developer Hazelight Studios with publisher Electronic Arts 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 4.9 million to 11.4 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, A Way Out can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.

Reviews

101,832

Positive

88%

Steam appid

1222700

Engine

Unknown

Players (snapshot)

1,151

Historical snapshot · 2026-07-05 20:10 UTC

Sales estimate

v1.0

4.9M to 11.4M

units (median: 8.1M)

≈ $83.7M to $195.4M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)

4.9M median 11.4M

+ How is this calculated?

101,832 reviews × NB(80) = 8,146,560 median units

Factor	Adjustment
base	+50
year_2020	+15
price_$30	+5
positive_88%	+10
final NB	80

Heuristic display range: median × [0.6, 1.4]. Boundary protection: NB ∈ [15, 150].

Methodology & limitations

Sales estimates use an additive Boxleiter-derived heuristic against public Steam review counts. They are not authoritative sales data, and the fixed display range is not a statistically validated confidence interval. Actual results may fall outside it, especially for deeply discounted or bundle-heavy titles. Algorithm version v1.0. Read the exact method and validation status.

indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for A Way Out at roughly 4.9 million to 11.4 million copies, with a median around 8.1 million, derived from its 101,832 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $139.6M 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

55 observed days · window low $8.99

Across 55 observed UTC days from 2026-05-15 to 2026-07-24, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $8.99 to $29.99. The tracked-window low was $8.99 on 2026-05-15.

Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.

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Platforms

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Frequently asked questions

How many copies has A Way Out sold?: indielist estimates A Way Out has sold between 4,887,936 and 11,405,184 units (median 8,146,560), derived from its 101,832 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
Who developed A Way Out?: A Way Out was developed by Hazelight Studios and published by Electronic Arts.
Who published A Way Out?: A Way Out was published by Electronic Arts, developed by Hazelight Studios. See Electronic Arts's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
When was A Way Out released?: A Way Out was released in 2020.
How many reviews does A Way Out have on Steam?: A Way Out has 101,832 Steam reviews, of which 88% are positive.
Is A Way Out worth playing?: Steam players rate A Way Out 88% positive across 101,832 reviews. indielist doesn't score games editorially; it surfaces public review sentiment and a white-box sales estimate so you can judge reception and reach yourself.

Players looking for games like A Way Out can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Action titles such as BOKURA, Outlast 2, Trine 4: The Nightmare Prince, The Headliners, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Hazelight Studios's other releases and Electronic Arts's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where A Way Out 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 A Way Out 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.

Matched from shared Steam tags and primary genre. Review count breaks ties; it is not a personal recommendation score.