How many copies has Detective Grimoire sold?

indielist estimates Detective Grimoire has sold between 116,736 and 272,384 units (median 194,560), derived from its 2,048 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.

Who developed Detective Grimoire?

Detective Grimoire was developed by SFB Games and published by SFB Games.

Who published Detective Grimoire?

Detective Grimoire was published by SFB Games, developed by SFB Games. See SFB Games's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.

When was Detective Grimoire released?

Detective Grimoire was released in 2014.

How many reviews does Detective Grimoire have on Steam?

Detective Grimoire has 2,048 Steam reviews, of which 96% are positive.

Is Detective Grimoire worth playing?

Steam players rate Detective Grimoire 96% positive across 2,048 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.

Detective Grimoire

Aug 18, 2014 Adventure $6.99

Developer SFB Games Publisher SFB Games

Profile updated Jun 2026

Adventure indie game Detective Grimoire comes from SFB Games, with the developer also listed as publisher. Released in 2014, it has 1,972 Steam reviews marked mixed at a $6.99 initial price, positioning it as a budget point-and-click style option.

Detective Grimoire is a 2014 Adventure game developed by SFB Games and published by SFB Games. On Steam it has gathered 2,048 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 windows, and launched at $7. The pairing of developer SFB Games with publisher SFB 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 117,000 to 272,000 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, Detective Grimoire can be compared against similar Adventure titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.

Reviews

2,048

Positive

96%

Steam appid

272600

Engine

Unknown

Players (snapshot)

Unavailable

Sales estimate

v1.0

117K to 272K

units (median: 195K)

≈ $466K to $1.1M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)

117K median 272K

+ How is this calculated?

2,048 reviews × NB(95) = 194,560 median units

Factor	Adjustment
base	+50
year_2014	+30
price_$7	-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 Detective Grimoire at roughly 117,000 to 272,000 copies, with a median around 195,000, derived from its 2,048 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $777K 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

8 observed days · window low $1.39

Across 8 observed UTC days from 2026-07-15 to 2026-07-22, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $1.39 to $1.39. The tracked-window low was $1.39 on 2026-07-15.

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

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Platforms

windows

Genres

AdventureIndie

Frequently asked questions

How many copies has Detective Grimoire sold?: indielist estimates Detective Grimoire has sold between 116,736 and 272,384 units (median 194,560), derived from its 2,048 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
Who developed Detective Grimoire?: Detective Grimoire was developed by SFB Games and published by SFB Games.
Who published Detective Grimoire?: Detective Grimoire was published by SFB Games, developed by SFB Games. See SFB Games's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
When was Detective Grimoire released?: Detective Grimoire was released in 2014.
How many reviews does Detective Grimoire have on Steam?: Detective Grimoire has 2,048 Steam reviews, of which 96% are positive.
Is Detective Grimoire worth playing?: Steam players rate Detective Grimoire 96% positive across 2,048 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 Detective Grimoire 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, SFB Games's other releases and SFB Games's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Detective Grimoire 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 Detective Grimoire 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.