How many copies has Outlast sold?

indielist estimates Outlast has sold between 5,575,554 and 13,009,626 units (median 9,292,590), derived from its 103,251 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.

Who developed Outlast?

Outlast was developed by Red Barrels and published by Red Barrels.

Who published Outlast?

Outlast was published by Red Barrels, developed by Red Barrels. See Red Barrels's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.

How many reviews does Outlast have on Steam?

Outlast has 103,251 Steam reviews, of which 96% are positive.

Is Outlast worth playing?

Steam players rate Outlast 96% positive across 103,251 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.

Outlast

Sep 4, 2013 Action $14.99

Developer Red Barrels Publisher Red Barrels

Profile updated May 2026

This action-adventure indie game, Outlast, launched in 2013. It has garnered over 101,059 reviews on Steam. The developer and publisher are currently unknown.

Outlast is a 2013 Action game developed by Red Barrels and published by Red Barrels. On Steam it has gathered 103,251 player reviews, 96% of them positive, which counts as a overwhelmingly positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on linux, mac, windows, and launched at $15. The pairing of developer Red Barrels with publisher Red Barrels 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 5.6 million to 13.0 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, Outlast can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.

Reviews

103,251

Positive

96%

Steam appid

238320

Engine

Unknown

Players (snapshot)

324

Historical snapshot · 2026-07-23 04:40 UTC

Sales estimate

v1.0

5.6M to 13.0M

units (median: 9.3M)

≈ $47.7M to $111.4M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)

5.6M median 13.0M

+ How is this calculated?

103,251 reviews × NB(90) = 9,292,590 median units

Factor	Adjustment
base	+50
year_2013	+30
price_$15	0
positive_96%	+10
final NB	90

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 Outlast at roughly 5.6 million to 13.0 million copies, with a median around 9.3 million, derived from its 103,251 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $79.6M 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

54 observed days · window low $3.74

Across 54 observed UTC days from 2026-05-31 to 2026-07-24, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $3.74 to $14.99. The tracked-window low was $3.74 on 2026-05-31.

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

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Platforms

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Frequently asked questions

How many copies has Outlast sold?: indielist estimates Outlast has sold between 5,575,554 and 13,009,626 units (median 9,292,590), derived from its 103,251 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
Who developed Outlast?: Outlast was developed by Red Barrels and published by Red Barrels.
Who published Outlast?: Outlast was published by Red Barrels, developed by Red Barrels. See Red Barrels's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
When was Outlast released?: Outlast was released in 2013.
How many reviews does Outlast have on Steam?: Outlast has 103,251 Steam reviews, of which 96% are positive.
Is Outlast worth playing?: Steam players rate Outlast 96% positive across 103,251 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 Outlast can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Action titles such as Outlast 2, Amnesia: The Dark Descent, Scorn, Slender: The Arrival, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Red Barrels's other releases and Red Barrels's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Outlast 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 Outlast 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.