Amnesia: The Dark Descent
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Frictional Games' 2010 action title, Amnesia: The Dark Descent, offers a survival horror experience. With over 20,000 Steam reviews showing 95% positive sentiment, the self-published game has a strong historical reception.
Overview
Amnesia: The Dark Descent is a 2010 Action game developed by Frictional Games and published by Frictional Games. On Steam it has gathered 20,154 player reviews, 95% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on linux, mac, windows, and launched at $20. The pairing of developer Frictional Games with publisher Frictional Games 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 1.1 million to 2.5 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, Amnesia: The Dark Descent can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
20,154
Positive
95%
Steam appid
57300
Engine
n/a
Sales estimate
vv1.01.1M to 2.5M
units (median: 1.8M)
≈ $12.4M to $29.0M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for Amnesia: The Dark Descent at roughly 1.1 million to 2.5 million copies, with a median around 1.8 million, derived from its 20,154 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter model (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $20.7M 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
90d · low $13.85Over the last 90 days the price ranged from $13.85 to $19.99, averaging $19.20 across 3 discount windows, with a historical low of $13.85 on 2026-05-13.
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Where to buy
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Platforms
linuxmacwindows
Tags
HorrorGorePsychological HorrorSurvival HorrorAtmosphericPuzzleFirst-PersonNudityDarkLovecraftianAdventureIndieSingleplayerStealthExplorationActionWalking SimulatorPhysicsStory RichSurreal
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Amnesia: The Dark Descent sold?
- indielist estimates Amnesia: The Dark Descent has sold between 1,088,316 and 2,539,404 units (median 1,813,860), derived from its 20,154 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter vv1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Amnesia: The Dark Descent?
- Amnesia: The Dark Descent was developed by Frictional Games and published by Frictional Games.
- When was Amnesia: The Dark Descent released?
- Amnesia: The Dark Descent was released in 2010.
- How many reviews does Amnesia: The Dark Descent have on Steam?
- Amnesia: The Dark Descent has 20,154 Steam reviews, of which 95% are positive.
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Amnesia: The Dark Descent sold?
- indielist estimates Amnesia: The Dark Descent has sold between 1,088,316 and 2,539,404 units (median 1,813,860), derived from its 20,154 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter vv1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Amnesia: The Dark Descent?
- Amnesia: The Dark Descent was developed by Frictional Games and published by Frictional Games.
- When was Amnesia: The Dark Descent released?
- Amnesia: The Dark Descent was released in 2010.
- How many reviews does Amnesia: The Dark Descent have on Steam?
- Amnesia: The Dark Descent has 20,154 Steam reviews, of which 95% are positive.
Ecosystem
indielist positions Amnesia: The Dark Descent within the Action segment so players can surface comparable titles by shared tags and genre rather than by storefront promotion. On the developer side, Frictional Games's other releases and Frictional Games's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Amnesia: The Dark Descent 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 Amnesia: The Dark Descent 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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