How many copies has Detention sold?

indielist estimates Detention has sold between 780,360 and 1,820,840 units (median 1,300,600), derived from its 13,006 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.

Who published Detention?

Detention was published by RedCandleGames, developed by RedCandleGames. See RedCandleGames's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.

When was Detention released?

Detention was released in 2017.

How many reviews does Detention have on Steam?

Detention has 13,006 Steam reviews, of which 96% are positive.

Is Detention worth playing?

Steam players rate Detention 96% positive across 13,006 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.

Detention

Jan 12, 2017 Adventure $11.99

Developer RedCandleGames Publisher RedCandleGames

Profile updated Jun 2026

Adventure-focused indie game Detention launched in 2017 from Red Candle Games, which is listed as both developer and publisher. It has 11,723 Steam reviews with 96% positive sentiment and an initial price of $11.99.

Detention is a 2017 Adventure game developed by RedCandleGames and published by RedCandleGames. On Steam it has gathered 13,006 player reviews, 96% of them positive, which counts as a overwhelmingly positive reception among indie titles in the Adventure category. The game is available on linux, mac, windows, and launched at $12. The pairing of developer RedCandleGames with publisher RedCandleGames 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 780,000 to 1.8 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, Detention can be compared against similar Adventure titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.

Reviews

13,006

Positive

96%

Steam appid

555220

Engine

Unknown

Players (snapshot)

Unavailable

Sales estimate

v1.0

780K to 1.8M

units (median: 1.3M)

≈ $5.3M to $12.5M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)

780K median 1.8M

+ How is this calculated?

13,006 reviews × NB(100) = 1,300,600 median units

Factor	Adjustment
base	+50
year_2017	+30
price_$12	0
positive_96%	+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 Detention at roughly 780,000 to 1.8 million copies, with a median around 1.3 million, derived from its 13,006 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $8.9M 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

29 observed days · window low $2.39

Across 29 observed UTC days from 2026-06-24 to 2026-07-22, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $2.39 to $11.99. The tracked-window low was $2.39 on 2026-06-26.

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

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Platforms

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Genres

AdventureIndie

Frequently asked questions

How many copies has Detention sold?: indielist estimates Detention has sold between 780,360 and 1,820,840 units (median 1,300,600), derived from its 13,006 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
Who developed Detention?: Detention was developed by RedCandleGames and published by RedCandleGames.
Who published Detention?: Detention was published by RedCandleGames, developed by RedCandleGames. See RedCandleGames's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
When was Detention released?: Detention was released in 2017.
How many reviews does Detention have on Steam?: Detention has 13,006 Steam reviews, of which 96% are positive.
Is Detention worth playing?: Steam players rate Detention 96% positive across 13,006 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 Detention 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, RedCandleGames's other releases and RedCandleGames's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Detention 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 Detention 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.