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Players investigate the fate of a merchant ship crew using a deductive logic mechanic. This title launched in 2018 and has accumulated 17,949 reviews on Steam. The game maintains a 96% positive rating, indicating strong reception within the indie sector.
Overview
Return of the Obra Dinn is a 2018 Adventure game developed by Lucas Pope and published by 3909. On Steam it has gathered 31,275 player reviews, 97% of them positive, which counts as a overwhelmingly positive reception among indie titles in the Adventure category. The game is available on mac, windows, and launched at $20. The pairing of developer Lucas Pope with publisher 3909 is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Adventure projects reach the market. indielist's white-box model estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 1.6 million to 3.7 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, Return of the Obra Dinn can be compared against similar Adventure titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
31,275
Positive
97%
Steam appid
653530
Engine
n/a
Sales estimate
vv1.01.6M to 3.7M
units (median: 2.7M)
≈ $18.2M to $42.5M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for Return of the Obra Dinn at roughly 1.6 million to 3.7 million copies, with a median around 2.7 million, derived from its 31,275 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter model (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $30.4M 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 $11.27Over the last 90 days the price ranged from $11.27 to $19.99, averaging $18.33 across 3 discount windows, with a historical low of $11.27 on 2026-04-11.
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Platforms
macwindows
Tags
DetectiveMysteryPuzzleStory RichAtmosphericSingleplayerIndieGreat SoundtrackFirst-PersonHistoricalAdventureNavalDifficultRetroMultiple EndingsViolentPiratesHorrorWalking SimulatorNoir
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Return of the Obra Dinn sold?
- indielist estimates Return of the Obra Dinn has sold between 1,595,025 and 3,721,725 units (median 2,658,375), derived from its 31,275 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter vv1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Return of the Obra Dinn?
- Return of the Obra Dinn was developed by Lucas Pope and published by 3909.
- When was Return of the Obra Dinn released?
- Return of the Obra Dinn was released in 2018.
- How many reviews does Return of the Obra Dinn have on Steam?
- Return of the Obra Dinn has 31,275 Steam reviews, of which 97% are positive.
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Return of the Obra Dinn sold?
- indielist estimates Return of the Obra Dinn has sold between 1,595,025 and 3,721,725 units (median 2,658,375), derived from its 31,275 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter vv1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Return of the Obra Dinn?
- Return of the Obra Dinn was developed by Lucas Pope and published by 3909.
- When was Return of the Obra Dinn released?
- Return of the Obra Dinn was released in 2018.
- How many reviews does Return of the Obra Dinn have on Steam?
- Return of the Obra Dinn has 31,275 Steam reviews, of which 97% are positive.
Ecosystem
indielist positions Return of the Obra Dinn within the Adventure segment so players can surface comparable titles by shared tags and genre rather than by storefront promotion. On the developer side, Lucas Pope's other releases and 3909's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Return of the Obra Dinn 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 Return of the Obra Dinn page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Adventure 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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