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This singleplayer puzzle adventure game, released in 2014, features point-and-click mystery gameplay. Developed and published by Fireproof Games, it has garnered 29,880 Steam reviews with 98% positive sentiment.
Overview
The Room is a 2014 Adventure game developed by Fireproof Games and published by Fireproof Games. On Steam it has gathered 30,194 player reviews, 98% of them positive, which counts as a overwhelmingly positive reception among indie titles in the Adventure category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $5. The pairing of developer Fireproof Games with publisher Fireproof 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 1.4 million to 3.4 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, The Room can be compared against similar Adventure titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
30,194
Positive
98%
Steam appid
288160
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.01.4M to 3.4M
units (median: 2.4M)
≈ $4.1M to $9.6M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2014 | +30 |
| price_$5 | -20 |
| positive_98% | +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 Room at roughly 1.4 million to 3.4 million copies, with a median around 2.4 million, derived from its 30,194 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $6.9M 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
51 observed days · window low $0.99Across 51 observed UTC days from 2026-06-03 to 2026-07-27, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $0.99 to $4.99. The tracked-window low was $0.99 on 2026-06-26.
Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.
Where to buy
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- GOG.com
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Platforms
windows
Tags
PuzzleMysteryPoint & ClickAtmosphericSingleplayerAdventureIndieHidden ObjectShortHorrorCasualFirst-PersonBeautifulEscape RoomDarkSteampunkLovecraftianTouch-FriendlyStory RichMultiplayer
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has The Room sold?
- indielist estimates The Room has sold between 1,449,312 and 3,381,728 units (median 2,415,520), derived from its 30,194 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed The Room?
- The Room was developed by Fireproof Games and published by Fireproof Games.
- Who published The Room?
- The Room was published by Fireproof Games, developed by Fireproof Games. See Fireproof Games's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was The Room released?
- The Room was released in 2014.
- How many reviews does The Room have on Steam?
- The Room has 30,194 Steam reviews, of which 98% are positive.
- Is The Room worth playing?
- Steam players rate The Room 98% positive across 30,194 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.
Ecosystem
Players looking for games like The Room can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Adventure titles such as The Room Two, The Room Three, We Were Here Together, What Remains of Edith Finch, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Fireproof Games's other releases and Fireproof Games's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where The Room 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 Room 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.
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