How many copies has Contrast sold?

indielist estimates Contrast has sold between 258,039 and 602,091 units (median 430,065), derived from its 4,527 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.

Who published Contrast?

Contrast was published by Xbox Game Studios, developed by Compulsion Games. See Xbox Game Studios's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.

How many reviews does Contrast have on Steam?

Contrast has 4,527 Steam reviews, of which 91% are positive.

Is Contrast worth playing?

Steam players rate Contrast 91% positive across 4,527 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.

Contrast

Nov 15, 2013 Adventure $9.99

Developer Compulsion Games Publisher Xbox Game Studios

Profile updated Jun 2026

Adventure-focused gameplay defines Contrast, a 2013 release from Compulsion Games. It has 5,658 Steam reviews with a 91% positive Very Positive rating, was published by Xbox Game Studios, and launched at an initial price of $9.99.

Contrast is a 2013 Adventure game developed by Compulsion Games and published by Xbox Game Studios. On Steam it has gathered 4,527 player reviews, 91% 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 $10. The pairing of developer Compulsion Games with publisher Xbox Game Studios 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 258,000 to 602,000 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, Contrast can be compared against similar Adventure titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.

Reviews

4,527

Positive

91%

Steam appid

224460

Engine

Unknown

Players (snapshot)

Unavailable

Sales estimate

v1.0

258K to 602K

units (median: 430K)

≈ $1.5M to $3.4M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)

258K median 602K

+ How is this calculated?

4,527 reviews × NB(95) = 430,065 median units

Factor	Adjustment
base	+50
year_2013	+30
price_$10	-5
positive_91%	+10
genre_Adventure	+10
final NB	95

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 Contrast at roughly 258,000 to 602,000 copies, with a median around 430,000, derived from its 4,527 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $2.5M 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

18 observed days · window low $2.49

Across 18 observed UTC days from 2026-06-08 to 2026-07-24, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $2.49 to $9.99. The tracked-window low was $2.49 on 2026-06-08.

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Platforms

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Frequently asked questions

How many copies has Contrast sold?: indielist estimates Contrast has sold between 258,039 and 602,091 units (median 430,065), derived from its 4,527 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
Who developed Contrast?: Contrast was developed by Compulsion Games and published by Xbox Game Studios.
Who published Contrast?: Contrast was published by Xbox Game Studios, developed by Compulsion Games. See Xbox Game Studios's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
When was Contrast released?: Contrast was released in 2013.
How many reviews does Contrast have on Steam?: Contrast has 4,527 Steam reviews, of which 91% are positive.
Is Contrast worth playing?: Steam players rate Contrast 91% positive across 4,527 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 Contrast can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Adventure titles such as GRIS, The Room Two, Monument Valley, Spirit of the North, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Compulsion Games's other releases and Xbox Game Studios's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Contrast 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 Contrast 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.

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