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Arkane Studios' 2012 action-stealth title, published by Bethesda Softworks, offers players first-person assassination gameplay. Steam reviews total 65,406 with a 98% positive rating.
Overview
Dishonored is a 2012 Action game developed by Arkane Studios and published by Bethesda Softworks. On Steam it has gathered 86,070 player reviews, 98% of them positive, which counts as a overwhelmingly positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $10. The pairing of developer Arkane Studios with publisher Bethesda Softworks 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 method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 4.4 million to 10.2 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, Dishonored can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
86,070
Positive
98%
Steam appid
205100
Engine
Unknown
Sales estimate
vv1.04.4M to 10.2M
units (median: 7.3M)
≈ $25.0M to $58.4M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2012 | +30 |
| price_$10 | -5 |
| positive_98% | +10 |
| final NB | 85 |
Confidence range: median × [0.6, 1.4]. Boundary protection: NB ∈ [15, 150].
Methodology & limitations
Sales estimates use a multi-factor Boxleiter method against public Steam review counts.
They are not authoritative sales data. Actual sales can deviate by
±50% in either direction. Free-to-play games, deeply discounted titles, and games
with heavy bundle distribution have larger error margins. Algorithm version
v1.0.
indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for Dishonored at roughly 4.4 million to 10.2 million copies, with a median around 7.3 million, derived from its 86,070 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $41.7M 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 $6.28Over the last 90 days the price ranged from $6.28 to $9.99, averaging $9.47 across 2 discount windows, with a historical low of $6.28 on 2026-04-24.
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Where to buy
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Platforms
windows
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Dishonored sold?
- indielist estimates Dishonored has sold between 4,389,570 and 10,242,330 units (median 7,315,950), derived from its 86,070 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter vv1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Dishonored?
- Dishonored was developed by Arkane Studios and published by Bethesda Softworks.
- When was Dishonored released?
- Dishonored was released in 2012.
- How many reviews does Dishonored have on Steam?
- Dishonored has 86,070 Steam reviews, of which 98% are positive.
Ecosystem
indielist positions Dishonored within the Action segment so players can surface comparable titles by shared tags and genre rather than by storefront promotion. On the developer side, Arkane Studios's other releases and Bethesda Softworks's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Dishonored 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 Dishonored 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.