How many copies has Slender Threads sold?

indielist estimates Slender Threads has sold between 20,592 and 48,048 units (median 34,320), derived from its 572 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.

Who developed Slender Threads?

Slender Threads was developed by Blyts and published by Blyts.

Who published Slender Threads?

Slender Threads was published by Blyts, developed by Blyts. See Blyts's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.

When was Slender Threads released?

Slender Threads was released in 2025.

How many reviews does Slender Threads have on Steam?

Slender Threads has 572 Steam reviews, of which 91% are positive.

Is Slender Threads worth playing?

Steam players rate Slender Threads 91% positive across 572 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.

Slender Threads

Feb 7, 2025 Adventure $19.99

Developer Blyts Publisher Blyts

Profile updated Jul 2026

Adventure indie game Slender Threads launched in 2025 from developer and publisher Blyts. It has 621 Steam reviews with 91% positive sentiment, a very positive signal for players comparing modest-review hidden gems at its $19.99 initial price.

Slender Threads is a 2025 Adventure game developed by Blyts and published by Blyts. On Steam it has gathered 572 player reviews, 91% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Adventure category. The game is available on linux, mac, windows, and launched at $20. The pairing of developer Blyts with publisher Blyts 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 method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 21,000 to 48,000 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, Slender Threads can be compared against similar Adventure titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.

Reviews

572

Positive

91%

Steam appid

1116480

Engine

Unknown

Players (snapshot)

Unavailable

Sales estimate

v1.0

21K to 48K

units (median: 34K)

≈ $235K to $549K modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)

21K median 48K

+ How is this calculated?

572 reviews × NB(60) = 34,320 median units

Factor	Adjustment
base	+50
year_2025	-10
price_$20	0
positive_91%	+10
genre_Adventure	+10
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 Slender Threads at roughly 21,000 to 48,000 copies, with a median around 34,000, derived from its 572 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $392K 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

13 observed days · window low $9.99

Across 13 observed UTC days from 2026-07-17 to 2026-09-04, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $9.99 to $19.99. The tracked-window low was $9.99 on 2026-09-04.

Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.

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Platforms

linuxmacwindows

Genres

AdventureIndie

Frequently asked questions

How many copies has Slender Threads sold?: indielist estimates Slender Threads has sold between 20,592 and 48,048 units (median 34,320), derived from its 572 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
Who developed Slender Threads?: Slender Threads was developed by Blyts and published by Blyts.
Who published Slender Threads?: Slender Threads was published by Blyts, developed by Blyts. See Blyts's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
When was Slender Threads released?: Slender Threads was released in 2025.
How many reviews does Slender Threads have on Steam?: Slender Threads has 572 Steam reviews, of which 91% are positive.
Is Slender Threads worth playing?: Steam players rate Slender Threads 91% positive across 572 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.

Players looking for games like Slender Threads can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Adventure titles such as Subnautica, Raft, Satisfactory, Human Fall Flat, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Blyts's other releases and Blyts's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Slender Threads 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 Threads 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.

Matched from shared Steam tags and primary genre. Review count breaks ties; it is not a personal recommendation score.