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Action indie game Nefarious launched in 2017 at an initial price of $14.99. It has 326 Steam reviews listed as mixed, with the developer and publisher not identified beyond self-publishing by the unknown developer.
Overview
Nefarious is a 2017 Action game. On Steam it has gathered 326 player reviews, 85% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on linux, mac, windows, and launched at $15. indielist places Nefarious within its relationship graph of studios, publishers, and games so players can find comparable Action titles and developers can benchmark how similar projects performed. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 18,000 to 41,000 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, Nefarious can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
326
Positive
85%
Steam appid
448290
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.018K to 41K
units (median: 29K)
≈ $151K to $352K modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2017 | +30 |
| price_$15 | 0 |
| positive_85% | +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 Nefarious at roughly 18,000 to 41,000 copies, with a median around 29,000, derived from its 326 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $251K 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
1 observed day · window low $14.99Across 1 observed UTC day from 2026-09-06 to 2026-09-06, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $14.99 to $14.99. The tracked-window low was $14.99 on 2026-09-06.
Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.
Where to buy
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- Green Man Gaming
- Fanatical
- Humble Store
- GOG.com
Latest tracked store observations (2026-09-06 06:04 UTC), cheapest first. Prices may have changed since observation. Some are affiliate links — we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. Learn more.
Platforms
linuxmacwindows
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Nefarious sold?
- indielist estimates Nefarious has sold between 17,604 and 41,076 units (median 29,340), derived from its 326 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- When was Nefarious released?
- Nefarious was released in 2017.
- How many reviews does Nefarious have on Steam?
- Nefarious has 326 Steam reviews, of which 85% are positive.
- Is Nefarious worth playing?
- Steam players rate Nefarious 85% positive across 326 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 Nefarious can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Action titles such as Terraria, Rust, Phasmophobia, The Forest, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. indielist links Nefarious to its developer's other releases and to comparable titles, so the page works as an entry point into the wider Action ecosystem rather than a dead end. Because indielist maps studios, publishers, games, and funding into one connected graph, the same Nefarious 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.
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