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Children of Silentown

Jan 11, 2023 Adventure $19.99
Developer Elf Games Publisher Daedalic Entertainment
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Point-and-click puzzle adventure indie game with atmospheric, story-rich play. Children of Silentown launched in 2023 from developer Elf Games and publisher Daedalic Entertainment, with 1,527 Steam reviews at 87% positive and a $19.99 initial price.

Overview

Children of Silentown is a 2023 Adventure game developed by Elf Games and published by Daedalic Entertainment. On Steam it has gathered 1,546 player reviews, 87% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Adventure category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $20. The pairing of developer Elf Games with publisher Daedalic Entertainment 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 65,000 to 152,000 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, Children of Silentown can be compared against similar Adventure titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.

Reviews

1,546

Positive

87%

Steam appid

1108000

Engine

Unknown

Players (snapshot)

Unavailable

Sales estimate

v1.0

65K to 152K

units (median: 108K)

≈ $741K to $1.7M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)

65K median 152K
+ How is this calculated?
1,546 reviews × NB(70) = 108,220 median units
Factor Adjustment
base +50
year_2023 0
price_$20 0
positive_87% +10
genre_Adventure +10
final NB 70

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 Children of Silentown at roughly 65,000 to 152,000 copies, with a median around 108,000, derived from its 1,546 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $1.2M 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

14 observed days · window low $5.99

Across 14 observed UTC days from 2026-06-03 to 2026-07-22, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $5.99 to $19.99. The tracked-window low was $5.99 on 2026-06-03.

$4 $13 $22 06-0306-0606-0807-1707-1907-22 2026-06-03: $5.99 2026-06-04: $5.99 2026-06-05: $5.99 2026-06-06: $5.99 2026-06-07: $5.99 2026-06-08: $5.99 2026-07-15: $19.99 2026-07-16: $19.99 2026-07-17: $5.99 2026-07-18: $5.99 2026-07-19: $5.99 2026-07-20: $5.99 2026-07-21: $5.99 2026-07-22: $5.99 2026-06-03: $5.99 (tracked-window low) 2026-06-04: $5.99 (tracked-window low) 2026-06-05: $5.99 (tracked-window low) 2026-06-06: $5.99 (tracked-window low) 2026-06-07: $5.99 (tracked-window low) 2026-06-08: $5.99 (tracked-window low) 2026-07-15: $19.99 2026-07-16: $19.99 2026-07-17: $5.99 (tracked-window low) 2026-07-18: $5.99 (tracked-window low) 2026-07-19: $5.99 (tracked-window low) 2026-07-20: $5.99 (tracked-window low) 2026-07-21: $5.99 (tracked-window low) 2026-07-22: $5.99 (tracked-window low) Tracked-window low: $5.99 on 2026-06-03

Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.

Where to buy

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Platforms

windows

Tags

AtmosphericAdventurePoint & ClickPuzzleStory RichFemale ProtagonistHorrorMysteryDarkHand-drawn2DColorfulMultiple EndingsSurrealCartoonyStylizedBeautifulIndieSingleplayerPsychological Horror

Frequently asked questions

How many copies has Children of Silentown sold?
indielist estimates Children of Silentown has sold between 64,932 and 151,508 units (median 108,220), derived from its 1,546 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
Who developed Children of Silentown?
Children of Silentown was developed by Elf Games and published by Daedalic Entertainment.
Who published Children of Silentown?
Children of Silentown was published by Daedalic Entertainment, developed by Elf Games. See Daedalic Entertainment's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
When was Children of Silentown released?
Children of Silentown was released in 2023.
How many reviews does Children of Silentown have on Steam?
Children of Silentown has 1,546 Steam reviews, of which 87% are positive.
Is Children of Silentown worth playing?
Steam players rate Children of Silentown 87% positive across 1,546 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.

Ecosystem

Players looking for games like Children of Silentown can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Adventure titles such as Fran Bow, Gorogoa, Sally Face - Episode One, Lost in Play, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Elf Games's other releases and Daedalic Entertainment's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Children of Silentown 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 Children of Silentown 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.

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