How many copies has Black Closet sold?

indielist estimates Black Closet has sold between 13,230 and 30,870 units (median 22,050), derived from its 245 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.

Who developed Black Closet?

Black Closet was developed by Hanako Games and published by Hanako Games.

Who published Black Closet?

Black Closet was published by Hanako Games, developed by Hanako Games. See Hanako Games's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.

When was Black Closet released?

Black Closet was released in 2015.

How many reviews does Black Closet have on Steam?

Black Closet has 245 Steam reviews, of which 92% are positive.

Is Black Closet worth playing?

Steam players rate Black Closet 92% positive across 245 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.

Black Closet

Sep 16, 2015 Indie $19.99

Developer Hanako Games Publisher Hanako Games

Profile updated Jul 2026

Indie game Black Closet comes from developer and publisher Hanako Games, with no listed engine or tag niche in the available data. It launched in 2015 at $19.99 and has 245 Steam reviews marked mixed, with the provided positivity figure listed as 0%.

Black Closet is a 2015 Indie game developed by Hanako Games and published by Hanako Games. On Steam it has gathered 245 player reviews, 92% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Indie category. The game is available on linux, mac, windows, and launched at $20. The pairing of developer Hanako Games with publisher Hanako Games is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Indie projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 13,000 to 31,000 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, Black Closet can be compared against similar Indie titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.

Reviews

245

Positive

92%

Steam appid

400580

Engine

Unknown

Players (snapshot)

Unavailable

Sales estimate

v1.0

13K to 31K

units (median: 22K)

≈ $151K to $352K modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)

13K median 31K

+ How is this calculated?

245 reviews × NB(90) = 22,050 median units

Factor	Adjustment
base	+50
year_2015	+30
price_$20	0
positive_92%	+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 Black Closet at roughly 13,000 to 31,000 copies, with a median around 22,000, derived from its 245 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $252K 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

6 observed days · window low $5.99

Across 6 observed UTC days from 2026-08-01 to 2026-09-05, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $5.99 to $19.99. The tracked-window low was $5.99 on 2026-08-01.

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

IndieRPG Simulation Strategy

Frequently asked questions

How many copies has Black Closet sold?: indielist estimates Black Closet has sold between 13,230 and 30,870 units (median 22,050), derived from its 245 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
Who developed Black Closet?: Black Closet was developed by Hanako Games and published by Hanako Games.
Who published Black Closet?: Black Closet was published by Hanako Games, developed by Hanako Games. See Hanako Games's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
When was Black Closet released?: Black Closet was released in 2015.
How many reviews does Black Closet have on Steam?: Black Closet has 245 Steam reviews, of which 92% are positive.
Is Black Closet worth playing?: Steam players rate Black Closet 92% positive across 245 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 Black Closet can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Indie titles such as Stardew Valley, Euro Truck Simulator 2, Project Zomboid, Undertale, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Hanako Games's other releases and Hanako Games's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Black Closet 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 Black Closet page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Indie 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.