How many copies has The Blackwell Legacy sold?

indielist estimates The Blackwell Legacy has sold between 64,224 and 149,856 units (median 107,040), derived from its 1,338 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.

Who developed The Blackwell Legacy?

The Blackwell Legacy was developed by Wadjet Eye Games and published by Wadjet Eye Games.

Who published The Blackwell Legacy?

The Blackwell Legacy was published by Wadjet Eye Games, developed by Wadjet Eye Games. See Wadjet Eye Games's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.

When was The Blackwell Legacy released?

The Blackwell Legacy was released in 2012.

How many reviews does The Blackwell Legacy have on Steam?

The Blackwell Legacy has 1,338 Steam reviews, of which 89% are positive.

Is The Blackwell Legacy worth playing?

Steam players rate The Blackwell Legacy 89% positive across 1,338 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.

The Blackwell Legacy

Jan 13, 2012 Adventure $4.99

Developer Wadjet Eye Games Publisher Wadjet Eye Games

Profile updated Jul 2026

Adventure indie game The Blackwell Legacy offers a budget entry point at $4.99. Released in 2012 by Wadjet Eye Games, which also publishes it, the game has 1,637 Steam reviews with 90% positive sentiment, giving it a very positive player signal.

The Blackwell Legacy is a 2012 Adventure game developed by Wadjet Eye Games and published by Wadjet Eye Games. On Steam it has gathered 1,338 player reviews, 89% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Adventure category. The game is available on linux, mac, windows, and launched at $5. The pairing of developer Wadjet Eye Games with publisher Wadjet Eye Games 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 64,000 to 150,000 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 Blackwell Legacy can be compared against similar Adventure titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.

Reviews

1,338

Positive

89%

Steam appid

80330

Engine

Unknown

Players (snapshot)

Unavailable

Sales estimate

v1.0

64K to 150K

units (median: 107K)

≈ $183K to $427K modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)

64K median 150K

+ How is this calculated?

1,338 reviews × NB(80) = 107,040 median units

Factor	Adjustment
base	+50
year_2012	+30
price_$5	-20
positive_89%	+10
genre_Adventure	+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 The Blackwell Legacy at roughly 64,000 to 150,000 copies, with a median around 107,000, derived from its 1,338 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $305K 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

6 observed days · window low $4.99

Across 6 observed UTC days from 2026-07-17 to 2026-07-22, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $4.99 to $4.99. The tracked-window low was $4.99 on 2026-07-17.

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

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Platforms

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Genres

AdventureIndie

Frequently asked questions

How many copies has The Blackwell Legacy sold?: indielist estimates The Blackwell Legacy has sold between 64,224 and 149,856 units (median 107,040), derived from its 1,338 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
Who developed The Blackwell Legacy?: The Blackwell Legacy was developed by Wadjet Eye Games and published by Wadjet Eye Games.
Who published The Blackwell Legacy?: The Blackwell Legacy was published by Wadjet Eye Games, developed by Wadjet Eye Games. See Wadjet Eye Games's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
When was The Blackwell Legacy released?: The Blackwell Legacy was released in 2012.
How many reviews does The Blackwell Legacy have on Steam?: The Blackwell Legacy has 1,338 Steam reviews, of which 89% are positive.
Is The Blackwell Legacy worth playing?: Steam players rate The Blackwell Legacy 89% positive across 1,338 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 The Blackwell Legacy can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Adventure titles such as Subnautica, Raft, Satisfactory, Human Fall Flat, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Wadjet Eye Games's other releases and Wadjet Eye Games's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where The Blackwell Legacy 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 Blackwell Legacy 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.