How many copies has SOMA sold?

indielist estimates SOMA has sold between 2,965,767 and 6,920,123 units (median 4,942,945), derived from its 52,031 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.

SOMA was published by Frictional Games, developed by Frictional Games. See Frictional Games's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.

How many reviews does SOMA have on Steam?

SOMA has 52,031 Steam reviews, of which 96% are positive.

Is SOMA worth playing?

Steam players rate SOMA 96% positive across 52,031 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.

SOMA

Sep 21, 2015 Action $29.99

Developer Frictional Games Publisher Frictional Games

Profile updated May 2026

SOMA is an action-adventure indie game released in 2015. It has garnered 44,982 reviews on Steam. The developer and publisher attribution is not yet imported.

SOMA is a 2015 Action game developed by Frictional Games and published by Frictional Games. On Steam it has gathered 52,031 player reviews, 96% of them positive, which counts as a overwhelmingly positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on linux, mac, windows, and launched at $30. The pairing of developer Frictional Games with publisher Frictional Games 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 3.0 million to 6.9 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, SOMA can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.

Reviews

52,031

Positive

96%

Steam appid

282140

Engine

Unknown

Players (snapshot)

106

Historical snapshot · 2026-06-07 13:11 UTC

Sales estimate

v1.0

3.0M to 6.9M

units (median: 4.9M)

≈ $50.8M to $118.5M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)

3.0M median 6.9M

+ How is this calculated?

52,031 reviews × NB(95) = 4,942,945 median units

Factor	Adjustment
base	+50
year_2015	+30
price_$30	+5
positive_96%	+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 SOMA at roughly 3.0 million to 6.9 million copies, with a median around 4.9 million, derived from its 52,031 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $84.7M 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

54 observed days · window low $5.99

Across 54 observed UTC days from 2026-05-31 to 2026-07-24, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $5.99 to $29.99. The tracked-window low was $5.99 on 2026-07-13.

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 SOMA sold?: indielist estimates SOMA has sold between 2,965,767 and 6,920,123 units (median 4,942,945), derived from its 52,031 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
Who developed SOMA?: SOMA was developed by Frictional Games and published by Frictional Games.
Who published SOMA?: SOMA was published by Frictional Games, developed by Frictional Games. See Frictional Games's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
When was SOMA released?: SOMA was released in 2015.
How many reviews does SOMA have on Steam?: SOMA has 52,031 Steam reviews, of which 96% are positive.
Is SOMA worth playing?: Steam players rate SOMA 96% positive across 52,031 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 SOMA can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Action titles such as Amnesia: The Dark Descent, Scorn, Among the Sleep - Enhanced Edition, Outlast, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Frictional Games's other releases and Frictional Games's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where SOMA 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 SOMA 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.