How many copies has The Crooked Man sold?

indielist estimates The Crooked Man has sold between 46,215 and 107,835 units (median 77,025), derived from its 1,185 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.

Who developed The Crooked Man?

The Crooked Man was developed by Uri Games and published by PLAYISM.

Who published The Crooked Man?

The Crooked Man was published by PLAYISM, developed by Uri Games. See PLAYISM's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.

When was The Crooked Man released?

The Crooked Man was released in 2018.

How many reviews does The Crooked Man have on Steam?

The Crooked Man has 1,185 Steam reviews, of which 93% are positive.

Is The Crooked Man worth playing?

Steam players rate The Crooked Man 93% positive across 1,185 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 Crooked Man

Jan 16, 2018 Adventure $2.99

Developer Uri Games Publisher PLAYISM

Profile updated Jun 2026

Adventure indie game The Crooked Man launched in 2018 from developer uri-games and publisher PLAYISM. Its $2.99 initial price positions it as a budget release, with 1,163 Steam reviews listed as mixed.

The Crooked Man is a 2018 Adventure game developed by Uri Games and published by PLAYISM. On Steam it has gathered 1,185 player reviews, 93% 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 $3. The pairing of developer Uri Games 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 46,000 to 108,000 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 Crooked Man can be compared against similar Adventure titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.

Reviews

1,185

Positive

93%

Steam appid

736570

Engine

Unknown

Players (snapshot)

Unavailable

Sales estimate

v1.0

46K to 108K

units (median: 77K)

≈ $79K to $184K modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)

46K median 108K

+ How is this calculated?

1,185 reviews × NB(65) = 77,025 median units

Factor	Adjustment
base	+50
year_2018	+15
price_$3	-20
positive_93%	+10
genre_Adventure	+10
final NB	65

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 Crooked Man at roughly 46,000 to 108,000 copies, with a median around 77,000, derived from its 1,185 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $132K 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

9 observed days · window low $1.49

Across 9 observed UTC days from 2026-07-15 to 2026-07-24, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $1.49 to $2.99. The tracked-window low was $1.49 on 2026-07-24.

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Platforms

windows

Genres

Adventure CasualIndie

Frequently asked questions

How many copies has The Crooked Man sold?: indielist estimates The Crooked Man has sold between 46,215 and 107,835 units (median 77,025), derived from its 1,185 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
Who developed The Crooked Man?: The Crooked Man was developed by Uri Games and published by PLAYISM.
Who published The Crooked Man?: The Crooked Man was published by PLAYISM, developed by Uri Games. See PLAYISM's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
When was The Crooked Man released?: The Crooked Man was released in 2018.
How many reviews does The Crooked Man have on Steam?: The Crooked Man has 1,185 Steam reviews, of which 93% are positive.
Is The Crooked Man worth playing?: Steam players rate The Crooked Man 93% positive across 1,185 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 Crooked Man 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, Uri Games's other releases and PLAYISM's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where The Crooked Man 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 Crooked Man 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.