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Action-focused indie game OBEY launched in 2020 from developer dez and publisher the-lo-fi-apocalypse-inc. With 433 Steam reviews at 85% positive, it fits an underrated budget pick at its $7.99 initial price.
Overview
OBEY is a 2020 Action game developed by Dez and published by The Lo-Fi Apocalypse, Inc.. On Steam it has gathered 260 player reviews, 84% of them positive, which counts as a mostly positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on linux, mac, windows, and launched at $8. The pairing of developer Dez with publisher The Lo-Fi Apocalypse, Inc. 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 9,000 to 22,000 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, OBEY can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
260
Positive
84%
Steam appid
346970
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.09K to 22K
units (median: 16K)
≈ $43K to $100K modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2020 | +15 |
| price_$8 | -5 |
| positive_84% | 0 |
| final NB | 60 |
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 OBEY at roughly 9,000 to 22,000 copies, with a median around 16,000, derived from its 260 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $71K 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 $7.99Across 8 observed UTC days from 2026-07-22 to 2026-09-04, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $7.99 to $7.99. The tracked-window low was $7.99 on 2026-07-22.
Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.
Where to buy
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- GOG.com
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Platforms
linuxmacwindows
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has OBEY sold?
- indielist estimates OBEY has sold between 9,360 and 21,840 units (median 15,600), derived from its 260 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed OBEY?
- OBEY was developed by Dez and published by The Lo-Fi Apocalypse, Inc..
- Who published OBEY?
- OBEY was published by The Lo-Fi Apocalypse, Inc., developed by Dez. See The Lo-Fi Apocalypse, Inc.'s full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was OBEY released?
- OBEY was released in 2020.
- How many reviews does OBEY have on Steam?
- OBEY has 260 Steam reviews, of which 84% are positive.
- Is OBEY worth playing?
- Steam players rate OBEY 84% positive across 260 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 OBEY 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. On the developer side, Dez's other releases and The Lo-Fi Apocalypse, Inc.'s wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where OBEY 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 OBEY 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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