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Action indie game Project Unknown launched in 2025 from developer psychoravens and publisher nightmare-studios. It has 918 Steam reviews at 83% positive, a mostly positive signal for players looking for an underrated budget action game at $9.99.
Overview
Project Unknown is a 2025 Action game developed by PsychoRavens and published by Nightmare Studios. On Steam it has gathered 775 player reviews, 83% of them positive, which counts as a mostly positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $10. The pairing of developer PsychoRavens with publisher Nightmare Studios 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 16,000 to 38,000 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, Project Unknown can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
775
Positive
83%
Steam appid
2115390
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.016K to 38K
units (median: 27K)
≈ $93K to $217K modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2025 | -10 |
| price_$10 | -5 |
| positive_83% | 0 |
| final NB | 35 |
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 Project Unknown at roughly 16,000 to 38,000 copies, with a median around 27,000, derived from its 775 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $155K 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
12 observed days · window low $9.99Across 12 observed UTC days from 2026-07-17 to 2026-09-01, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $9.99 to $9.99. The tracked-window low was $9.99 on 2026-07-17.
Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.
Where to buy
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Platforms
windows
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Project Unknown sold?
- indielist estimates Project Unknown has sold between 16,275 and 37,975 units (median 27,125), derived from its 775 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Project Unknown?
- Project Unknown was developed by PsychoRavens and published by Nightmare Studios.
- Who published Project Unknown?
- Project Unknown was published by Nightmare Studios, developed by PsychoRavens. See Nightmare Studios's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was Project Unknown released?
- Project Unknown was released in 2025.
- How many reviews does Project Unknown have on Steam?
- Project Unknown has 775 Steam reviews, of which 83% are positive.
- Is Project Unknown worth playing?
- Steam players rate Project Unknown 83% positive across 775 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 Project Unknown 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, PsychoRavens's other releases and Nightmare Studios's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Project Unknown 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 Project Unknown 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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