How many copies has Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth sold?

indielist estimates Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth has sold between 452,460 and 1,055,740 units (median 754,100), derived from its 7,541 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.

Who developed Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth?

Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth was developed by Daedalic Entertainment and published by Daedalic Entertainment.

Who published Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth?

Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth was published by Daedalic Entertainment, developed by Daedalic Entertainment. See Daedalic Entertainment's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.

When was Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth released?

Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth was released in 2017.

How many reviews does Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth have on Steam?

Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth has 7,541 Steam reviews, of which 92% are positive.

Is Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth worth playing?

Steam players rate Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth 92% positive across 7,541 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.

Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth

Aug 15, 2017 Adventure $19.99

Developer Daedalic Entertainment Publisher Daedalic Entertainment

Profile updated Jul 2026

Adventure indie game based on Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth, developed and published by Daedalic Entertainment. It launched in 2017 at $19.99 and has 7,534 Steam reviews with 92% positive, marked Very Positive.

Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth is a 2017 Adventure game developed by Daedalic Entertainment and published by Daedalic Entertainment. On Steam it has gathered 7,541 player reviews, 92% 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 $20. The pairing of developer Daedalic Entertainment with publisher Daedalic Entertainment 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 452,000 to 1.1 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, Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth can be compared against similar Adventure titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.

Reviews

7,541

Positive

92%

Steam appid

234270

Engine

Unknown

Players (snapshot)

Unavailable

Sales estimate

v1.0

452K to 1.1M

units (median: 754K)

≈ $5.2M to $12.1M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)

452K median 1.1M

+ How is this calculated?

7,541 reviews × NB(100) = 754,100 median units

Factor	Adjustment
base	+50
year_2017	+30
price_$20	0
positive_92%	+10
genre_Adventure	+10
final NB	100

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 Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth at roughly 452,000 to 1.1 million copies, with a median around 754,000, derived from its 7,541 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $8.6M 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

6 observed days · window low $1.99

Across 6 observed UTC days from 2026-07-17 to 2026-07-22, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $1.99 to $1.99. The tracked-window low was $1.99 on 2026-07-17.

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

Where to buy

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Steam reference

$19.99 Buy
Humble Store

$19.99 Buy

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Platforms

linuxmacwindows

Genres

Adventure CasualIndie

Frequently asked questions

How many copies has Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth sold?: indielist estimates Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth has sold between 452,460 and 1,055,740 units (median 754,100), derived from its 7,541 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
Who developed Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth?: Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth was developed by Daedalic Entertainment and published by Daedalic Entertainment.
Who published Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth?: Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth was published by Daedalic Entertainment, developed by Daedalic Entertainment. See Daedalic Entertainment's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
When was Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth released?: Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth was released in 2017.
How many reviews does Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth have on Steam?: Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth has 7,541 Steam reviews, of which 92% are positive.
Is Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth worth playing?: Steam players rate Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth 92% positive across 7,541 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 Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth 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, Daedalic Entertainment's other releases and Daedalic Entertainment's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth 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 Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth 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.