How many copies has The Long Dark sold?

indielist estimates The Long Dark has sold between 6,658,320 and 15,536,080 units (median 11,097,200), derived from its 110,972 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.

Who published The Long Dark?

The Long Dark was published by Hinterland Studio Inc., developed by Hinterland Studio Inc.. See Hinterland Studio Inc.'s full catalogue and submission status on indielist.

When was The Long Dark released?

The Long Dark was released in 2017.

How many reviews does The Long Dark have on Steam?

The Long Dark has 110,972 Steam reviews, of which 89% are positive.

Is The Long Dark worth playing?

Steam players rate The Long Dark 89% positive across 110,972 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 Long Dark

Aug 1, 2017 Adventure $19.99

Developer Hinterland Studio Inc. Publisher Hinterland Studio Inc.

Profile updated May 2026

This adventure simulation game, released in 2017, offers a challenging survival experience. It has garnered 109,801 reviews on Steam.

The Long Dark is a 2017 Adventure game developed by Hinterland Studio Inc. and published by Hinterland Studio Inc.. On Steam it has gathered 110,972 player reviews, 89% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Adventure category. The game is available on linux, mac, windows, and launched at $20. The pairing of developer Hinterland Studio Inc. with publisher Hinterland Studio Inc. 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 6.7 million to 15.5 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, The Long Dark can be compared against similar Adventure titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.

Reviews

110,972

Positive

89%

Steam appid

305620

Engine

Unknown

Players (snapshot)

1,948

Fresh snapshot · 2026-07-24 21:45 UTC · 24h peak 2,577

Sales estimate

v1.0

6.7M to 15.5M

units (median: 11.1M)

≈ $76.0M to $177.4M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)

6.7M median 15.5M

+ How is this calculated?

110,972 reviews × NB(100) = 11,097,200 median units

Factor	Adjustment
base	+50
year_2017	+30
price_$20	0
positive_89%	+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 The Long Dark at roughly 6.7 million to 15.5 million copies, with a median around 11.1 million, derived from its 110,972 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $126.7M 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 $8.74

Across 54 observed UTC days from 2026-05-31 to 2026-07-24, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $8.74 to $19.99. The tracked-window low was $8.74 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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Frequently asked questions

How many copies has The Long Dark sold?: indielist estimates The Long Dark has sold between 6,658,320 and 15,536,080 units (median 11,097,200), derived from its 110,972 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
Who developed The Long Dark?: The Long Dark was developed by Hinterland Studio Inc. and published by Hinterland Studio Inc..
Who published The Long Dark?: The Long Dark was published by Hinterland Studio Inc., developed by Hinterland Studio Inc.. See Hinterland Studio Inc.'s full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
When was The Long Dark released?: The Long Dark was released in 2017.
How many reviews does The Long Dark have on Steam?: The Long Dark has 110,972 Steam reviews, of which 89% are positive.
Is The Long Dark worth playing?: Steam players rate The Long Dark 89% positive across 110,972 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 Long Dark can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Adventure titles such as Stranded Deep, Raft, Satisfactory, The Forest, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Hinterland Studio Inc.'s other releases and Hinterland Studio Inc.'s wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where The Long Dark 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 Long Dark 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.