How many copies has The Bookwalker: Thief of Tales sold?

indielist estimates The Bookwalker: Thief of Tales has sold between 79,842 and 186,298 units (median 133,070), derived from its 1,901 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.

Who developed The Bookwalker: Thief of Tales?

The Bookwalker: Thief of Tales was developed by DO MY BEST and published by tinyBuild.

Who published The Bookwalker: Thief of Tales?

The Bookwalker: Thief of Tales was published by tinyBuild, developed by DO MY BEST. See tinyBuild's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.

When was The Bookwalker: Thief of Tales released?

The Bookwalker: Thief of Tales was released in 2023.

How many reviews does The Bookwalker: Thief of Tales have on Steam?

The Bookwalker: Thief of Tales has 1,901 Steam reviews, of which 91% are positive.

Is The Bookwalker: Thief of Tales worth playing?

Steam players rate The Bookwalker: Thief of Tales 91% positive across 1,901 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 Bookwalker: Thief of Tales

Jun 22, 2023 Adventure $14.99

Developer DO MY BEST Publisher tinyBuild

Profile updated Jun 2026

Adventure indie game The Bookwalker: Thief of Tales launched in 2023 from developer do-my-best and publisher tinybuild. On Steam it has 1,877 reviews marked mixed at 0% positive, with an initial price of $14.99.

The Bookwalker: Thief of Tales is a 2023 Adventure game developed by DO MY BEST and published by tinyBuild. On Steam it has gathered 1,901 player reviews, 91% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Adventure category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $15. The pairing of developer DO MY BEST with publisher tinyBuild 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 80,000 to 186,000 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 Bookwalker: Thief of Tales can be compared against similar Adventure titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.

Reviews

1,901

Positive

91%

Steam appid

1432100

Engine

Unknown

Players (snapshot)

Unavailable

Sales estimate

v1.0

80K to 186K

units (median: 133K)

≈ $684K to $1.6M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)

80K median 186K

+ How is this calculated?

1,901 reviews × NB(70) = 133,070 median units

Factor	Adjustment
base	+50
year_2023	0
price_$15	0
positive_91%	+10
genre_Adventure	+10
final NB	70

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 Bookwalker: Thief of Tales at roughly 80,000 to 186,000 copies, with a median around 133,000, derived from its 1,901 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $1.1M 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

8 observed days · window low $3.89

Across 8 observed UTC days from 2026-07-15 to 2026-07-22, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $3.89 to $3.89. The tracked-window low was $3.89 on 2026-07-15.

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

Where to buy

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Platforms

windows

Genres

AdventureIndie

Frequently asked questions

How many copies has The Bookwalker: Thief of Tales sold?: indielist estimates The Bookwalker: Thief of Tales has sold between 79,842 and 186,298 units (median 133,070), derived from its 1,901 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
Who developed The Bookwalker: Thief of Tales?: The Bookwalker: Thief of Tales was developed by DO MY BEST and published by tinyBuild.
Who published The Bookwalker: Thief of Tales?: The Bookwalker: Thief of Tales was published by tinyBuild, developed by DO MY BEST. See tinyBuild's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
When was The Bookwalker: Thief of Tales released?: The Bookwalker: Thief of Tales was released in 2023.
How many reviews does The Bookwalker: Thief of Tales have on Steam?: The Bookwalker: Thief of Tales has 1,901 Steam reviews, of which 91% are positive.
Is The Bookwalker: Thief of Tales worth playing?: Steam players rate The Bookwalker: Thief of Tales 91% positive across 1,901 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 Bookwalker: Thief of Tales 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, DO MY BEST's other releases and tinyBuild's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where The Bookwalker: Thief of Tales 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 Bookwalker: Thief of Tales 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.