Slender: The Arrival
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Action-oriented survival horror released in 2013 by Blue Isle Publishing. This indie title has garnered 9,270 Steam reviews with an 88% positive rating. It features first-person and multiplayer modes.
Overview
Slender: The Arrival is a 2013 Action game developed by Blue Isle Studios and published by Blue Isle Publishing. On Steam it has gathered 9,278 player reviews, 88% 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 $20. The pairing of developer Blue Isle Studios with publisher Blue Isle Publishing 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 501,000 to 1.2 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, Slender: The Arrival can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
9,278
Positive
88%
Steam appid
252330
Engine
Unknown
Sales estimate
vv1.0501K to 1.2M
units (median: 835K)
≈ $5.7M to $13.3M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2013 | +30 |
| price_$20 | 0 |
| positive_88% | +10 |
| final NB | 90 |
Confidence range: median × [0.6, 1.4]. Boundary protection: NB ∈ [15, 150].
Methodology & limitations
Sales estimates use a multi-factor Boxleiter method against public Steam review counts.
They are not authoritative sales data. Actual sales can deviate by
±50% in either direction. Free-to-play games, deeply discounted titles, and games
with heavy bundle distribution have larger error margins. Algorithm version
v1.0.
indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for Slender: The Arrival at roughly 501,000 to 1.2 million copies, with a median around 835,000, derived from its 9,278 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $9.5M 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 $10.77Over the last 90 days the price ranged from $10.77 to $19.99, averaging $18.72 across 1 discount window, with a historical low of $10.77 on 2026-04-08.
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Where to buy
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Platforms
macwindows
Tags
HorrorSurvival HorrorFirst-PersonMultiplayerIndieDarkPsychological HorrorSingleplayerAtmosphericWalking SimulatorAdventureSurvivalActionDifficultOpen WorldFemale ProtagonistExplorationJump ScareCo-opShort
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Slender: The Arrival sold?
- indielist estimates Slender: The Arrival has sold between 501,012 and 1,169,028 units (median 835,020), derived from its 9,278 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter vv1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Slender: The Arrival?
- Slender: The Arrival was developed by Blue Isle Studios and published by Blue Isle Publishing.
- When was Slender: The Arrival released?
- Slender: The Arrival was released in 2013.
- How many reviews does Slender: The Arrival have on Steam?
- Slender: The Arrival has 9,278 Steam reviews, of which 88% are positive.
Ecosystem
indielist positions Slender: The Arrival within the Action segment so players can surface comparable titles by shared tags and genre rather than by storefront promotion. On the developer side, Blue Isle Studios's other releases and Blue Isle Publishing's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Slender: The Arrival 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 Slender: The Arrival 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.