How many copies has Mad Father sold?

indielist estimates Mad Father has sold between 378,708 and 883,652 units (median 631,180), derived from its 6,644 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.

Who developed Mad Father?

Mad Father was developed by sen and published by PLAYISM.

Who published Mad Father?

Mad Father was published by PLAYISM, developed by sen. See PLAYISM's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.

When was Mad Father released?

Mad Father was released in 2016.

How many reviews does Mad Father have on Steam?

Mad Father has 6,644 Steam reviews, of which 97% are positive.

Is Mad Father worth playing?

Steam players rate Mad Father 97% positive across 6,644 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.

Mad Father

Sep 22, 2016 Adventure $9.99

Developer sen Publisher PLAYISM

Profile updated May 2026

Mad Father is an adventure game released in 2016. It has garnered 5,948 reviews on Steam. Developer attribution is currently unknown.

Mad Father is a 2016 Adventure game developed by sen and published by PLAYISM. On Steam it has gathered 6,644 player reviews, 97% 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 $10. The pairing of developer sen with publisher PLAYISM 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 379,000 to 884,000 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, Mad Father can be compared against similar Adventure titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.

Reviews

6,644

Positive

97%

Steam appid

483980

Engine

Unknown

Players (snapshot)

Historical snapshot · 2026-05-24 13:45 UTC

Sales estimate

v1.0

379K to 884K

units (median: 631K)

≈ $2.2M to $5.0M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)

379K median 884K

+ How is this calculated?

6,644 reviews × NB(95) = 631,180 median units

Factor	Adjustment
base	+50
year_2016	+30
price_$10	-5
positive_97%	+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 Mad Father at roughly 379,000 to 884,000 copies, with a median around 631,000, derived from its 6,644 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $3.6M 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

51 observed days · window low $4.99

Across 51 observed UTC days from 2026-05-31 to 2026-07-22, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $4.99 to $9.99. The tracked-window low was $4.99 on 2026-06-26.

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

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Platforms

windows

Frequently asked questions

How many copies has Mad Father sold?: indielist estimates Mad Father has sold between 378,708 and 883,652 units (median 631,180), derived from its 6,644 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
Who developed Mad Father?: Mad Father was developed by sen and published by PLAYISM.
Who published Mad Father?: Mad Father was published by PLAYISM, developed by sen. See PLAYISM's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
When was Mad Father released?: Mad Father was released in 2016.
How many reviews does Mad Father have on Steam?: Mad Father has 6,644 Steam reviews, of which 97% are positive.
Is Mad Father worth playing?: Steam players rate Mad Father 97% positive across 6,644 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 Mad Father can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Adventure titles such as OneShot, OneShot: World Machine Edition, Ib, Little Misfortune, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, sen's other releases and PLAYISM's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Mad Father 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 Mad Father 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.