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Co-operative gameplay defines this title, which requires two players to navigate its narrative. Since its 2020 release, the game has accumulated 25,222 reviews on Steam. It maintains an 88% positive rating, categorizing its performance as very positive within the indie sector.
Overview
A Way Out is a 2020 Action game developed by Hazelight Studios and published by Electronic Arts. On Steam it has gathered 76,189 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 windows, and launched at $30. The pairing of developer Hazelight Studios with publisher Electronic Arts 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 model estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 3.7 million to 8.5 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, A Way Out can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
76,189
Positive
88%
Steam appid
1222700
Engine
n/a
Sales estimate
vv1.03.7M to 8.5M
units (median: 6.1M)
≈ $62.6M to $146.2M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for A Way Out at roughly 3.7 million to 8.5 million copies, with a median around 6.1 million, derived from its 76,189 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter model (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $104.4M 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
90d · low $18.94Over the last 90 days the price ranged from $18.94 to $29.99, averaging $28.57 across 3 discount windows, with a historical low of $18.94 on 2026-05-18.
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Where to buy
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Platforms
windows
Tags
Online Co-OpCo-opSplit ScreenStory RichLocal Co-OpMultiplayerAction-AdventureActionAdventureCrimeThird PersonEmotionalConversationAtmosphericNudityCinematicSexual ContentViolentSingleplayerIndie
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has A Way Out sold?
- indielist estimates A Way Out has sold between 3,657,072 and 8,533,168 units (median 6,095,120), derived from its 76,189 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter vv1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed A Way Out?
- A Way Out was developed by Hazelight Studios and published by Electronic Arts.
- When was A Way Out released?
- A Way Out was released in 2020.
- How many reviews does A Way Out have on Steam?
- A Way Out has 76,189 Steam reviews, of which 88% are positive.
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has A Way Out sold?
- indielist estimates A Way Out has sold between 3,657,072 and 8,533,168 units (median 6,095,120), derived from its 76,189 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter vv1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed A Way Out?
- A Way Out was developed by Hazelight Studios and published by Electronic Arts.
- When was A Way Out released?
- A Way Out was released in 2020.
- How many reviews does A Way Out have on Steam?
- A Way Out has 76,189 Steam reviews, of which 88% are positive.
Ecosystem
Players looking for games like A Way Out can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Action titles such as Escape the Backrooms, Enshrouded, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Hazelight Studios's other releases and Electronic Arts's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where A Way Out 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 A Way Out 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.
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