How many copies has Thief Simulator sold?

indielist estimates Thief Simulator has sold between 1,776,600 and 4,145,400 units (median 2,961,000), derived from its 39,480 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.

Who developed Thief Simulator?

Thief Simulator was developed by Noble Muffins and published by PlayWay S.A..

Who published Thief Simulator?

Thief Simulator was published by PlayWay S.A., developed by Noble Muffins. See PlayWay S.A.'s full catalogue and submission status on indielist.

When was Thief Simulator released?

Thief Simulator was released in 2018.

How many reviews does Thief Simulator have on Steam?

Thief Simulator has 39,480 Steam reviews, of which 88% are positive.

Is Thief Simulator worth playing?

Steam players rate Thief Simulator 88% positive across 39,480 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.

Thief Simulator

Nov 9, 2018 Action $19.99

Developer Noble Muffins Publisher PlayWay S.A.

Profile updated May 2026

Thief Simulator is an action and simulation game released in 2018. With over 36,581 Steam reviews, this indie title offers players a unique gameplay experience.

Thief Simulator is a 2018 Action game developed by Noble Muffins and published by PlayWay S.A.. On Steam it has gathered 39,480 player reviews, 88% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on mac, windows, and launched at $20. The pairing of developer Noble Muffins with publisher PlayWay S.A. is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Action projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 1.8 million to 4.1 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, Thief Simulator can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.

Reviews

39,480

Positive

88%

Steam appid

704850

Engine

Unknown

Players (snapshot)

246

Historical snapshot · 2026-06-02 22:35 UTC

Sales estimate

v1.0

1.8M to 4.1M

units (median: 3.0M)

≈ $20.3M to $47.3M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)

1.8M median 4.1M

+ How is this calculated?

39,480 reviews × NB(75) = 2,961,000 median units

Factor	Adjustment
base	+50
year_2018	+15
price_$20	0
positive_88%	+10
final NB	75

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 Thief Simulator at roughly 1.8 million to 4.1 million copies, with a median around 3.0 million, derived from its 39,480 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $33.8M 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

54 observed days · window low $1.97

Across 54 observed UTC days from 2026-05-31 to 2026-07-24, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $1.97 to $19.99. The tracked-window low was $1.97 on 2026-06-25.

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

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Platforms

macwindows

Frequently asked questions

How many copies has Thief Simulator sold?: indielist estimates Thief Simulator has sold between 1,776,600 and 4,145,400 units (median 2,961,000), derived from its 39,480 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
Who developed Thief Simulator?: Thief Simulator was developed by Noble Muffins and published by PlayWay S.A..
Who published Thief Simulator?: Thief Simulator was published by PlayWay S.A., developed by Noble Muffins. See PlayWay S.A.'s full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
When was Thief Simulator released?: Thief Simulator was released in 2018.
How many reviews does Thief Simulator have on Steam?: Thief Simulator has 39,480 Steam reviews, of which 88% are positive.
Is Thief Simulator worth playing?: Steam players rate Thief Simulator 88% positive across 39,480 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 Thief Simulator can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Action titles such as Thief Simulator 2, Crime Scene Cleaner, The Forest, No Man's Sky, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Noble Muffins's other releases and PlayWay S.A.'s wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Thief Simulator 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 Thief Simulator page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Action 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.