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Action indie game Pacify offers a budget entry point at $4.99. Released in 2019 by developer shawn-hitchcock and publisher hitchcock-games, it has 42,559 Steam reviews with 86% positive, a very positive signal for buyers assessing demand.
Overview
Pacify is a 2019 Action game developed by Shawn Hitchcock and published by Hitchcock Games. On Steam it has gathered 32,892 player reviews, 86% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on mac, windows, and launched at $5. The pairing of developer Shawn Hitchcock with publisher Hitchcock Games 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 1.1 million to 2.5 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, Pacify can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
32,892
Positive
86%
Steam appid
967050
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.01.1M to 2.5M
units (median: 1.8M)
≈ $3.1M to $7.2M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2019 | +15 |
| price_$5 | -20 |
| positive_86% | +10 |
| final NB | 55 |
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 Pacify at roughly 1.1 million to 2.5 million copies, with a median around 1.8 million, derived from its 32,892 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $5.2M 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
50 observed days · window low $2.19Across 50 observed UTC days from 2026-06-10 to 2026-09-04, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $2.19 to $4.99. The tracked-window low was $2.19 on 2026-08-28.
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 (2026-09-04 05:34 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
macwindows
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Pacify sold?
- indielist estimates Pacify has sold between 1,085,436 and 2,532,684 units (median 1,809,060), derived from its 32,892 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Pacify?
- Pacify was developed by Shawn Hitchcock and published by Hitchcock Games.
- Who published Pacify?
- Pacify was published by Hitchcock Games, developed by Shawn Hitchcock. See Hitchcock Games's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was Pacify released?
- Pacify was released in 2019.
- How many reviews does Pacify have on Steam?
- Pacify has 32,892 Steam reviews, of which 86% are positive.
- Is Pacify worth playing?
- Steam players rate Pacify 86% positive across 32,892 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 Pacify 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, Shawn Hitchcock's other releases and Hitchcock Games's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Pacify 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 Pacify 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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