How many copies has Blackwell Deception sold?

indielist estimates Blackwell Deception has sold between 29,184 and 68,096 units (median 48,640), derived from its 512 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.

Who developed Blackwell Deception?

Blackwell Deception was developed by Wadjet Eye Games and published by Wadjet Eye Games.

Who published Blackwell Deception?

Blackwell Deception was published by Wadjet Eye Games, developed by Wadjet Eye Games. See Wadjet Eye Games's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.

When was Blackwell Deception released?

Blackwell Deception was released in 2012.

How many reviews does Blackwell Deception have on Steam?

Blackwell Deception has 512 Steam reviews, of which 96% are positive.

Is Blackwell Deception worth playing?

Steam players rate Blackwell Deception 96% positive across 512 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.

Blackwell Deception

Jan 13, 2012 Adventure $9.99

Developer Wadjet Eye Games Publisher Wadjet Eye Games

Profile updated Jul 2026

Adventure indie game from Wadjet Eye Games, developed and published by the same studio. Released in 2012 at $9.99, Blackwell Deception has 645 Steam reviews with 96% positive sentiment, signaling strong reception in its niche.

Blackwell Deception is a 2012 Adventure game developed by Wadjet Eye Games and published by Wadjet Eye Games. On Steam it has gathered 512 player reviews, 96% of them positive, which counts as a overwhelmingly positive reception among indie titles in the Adventure category. The game is available on linux, mac, windows, and launched at $10. The pairing of developer Wadjet Eye Games with publisher Wadjet Eye Games 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 29,000 to 68,000 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, Blackwell Deception can be compared against similar Adventure titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.

Reviews

512

Positive

96%

Steam appid

80360

Engine

Unknown

Players (snapshot)

Unavailable

Sales estimate

v1.0

29K to 68K

units (median: 49K)

≈ $167K to $389K modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)

29K median 68K

+ How is this calculated?

512 reviews × NB(95) = 48,640 median units

Factor	Adjustment
base	+50
year_2012	+30
price_$10	-5
positive_96%	+10
genre_Adventure	+10
final NB	95

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 Blackwell Deception at roughly 29,000 to 68,000 copies, with a median around 49,000, derived from its 512 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $278K 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

12 observed days · window low $9.99

Across 12 observed UTC days from 2026-07-17 to 2026-09-01, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $9.99 to $9.99. The tracked-window low was $9.99 on 2026-07-17.

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

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Frequently asked questions

How many copies has Blackwell Deception sold?: indielist estimates Blackwell Deception has sold between 29,184 and 68,096 units (median 48,640), derived from its 512 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
Who developed Blackwell Deception?: Blackwell Deception was developed by Wadjet Eye Games and published by Wadjet Eye Games.
Who published Blackwell Deception?: Blackwell Deception was published by Wadjet Eye Games, developed by Wadjet Eye Games. See Wadjet Eye Games's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
When was Blackwell Deception released?: Blackwell Deception was released in 2012.
How many reviews does Blackwell Deception have on Steam?: Blackwell Deception has 512 Steam reviews, of which 96% are positive.
Is Blackwell Deception worth playing?: Steam players rate Blackwell Deception 96% positive across 512 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 Blackwell Deception can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Adventure titles such as Subnautica, Raft, Satisfactory, Human Fall Flat, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Wadjet Eye Games's other releases and Wadjet Eye Games's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Blackwell Deception 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 Blackwell Deception 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.