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Action indie game Stay Close launched in 2016 from Blind Bird, which is listed as both developer and publisher. It has 1,494 Steam reviews marked mixed and an initial $8.99 price point, placing it in the budget range.
Overview
Stay Close is a 2016 Action game developed by Blind Bird and published by Blind Bird. On Steam it has gathered 1,496 player reviews, 62% of them positive, which counts as a mixed reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $9. The pairing of developer Blind Bird with publisher Blind Bird 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 58,000 to 136,000 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, Stay Close can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
1,496
Positive
62%
Steam appid
455120
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.058K to 136K
units (median: 97K)
≈ $300K to $699K modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2016 | +30 |
| price_$9 | -5 |
| positive_62% | -10 |
| final NB | 65 |
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 Stay Close at roughly 58,000 to 136,000 copies, with a median around 97,000, derived from its 1,496 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $499K 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
3 observed days · window low $8.99Across 3 observed UTC days from 2026-08-22 to 2026-09-05, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $8.99 to $8.99. The tracked-window low was $8.99 on 2026-08-22.
Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.
Where to buy
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- Humble Store
- GOG.com
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Platforms
windows
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Stay Close sold?
- indielist estimates Stay Close has sold between 58,344 and 136,136 units (median 97,240), derived from its 1,496 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Stay Close?
- Stay Close was developed by Blind Bird and published by Blind Bird.
- Who published Stay Close?
- Stay Close was published by Blind Bird, developed by Blind Bird. See Blind Bird's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was Stay Close released?
- Stay Close was released in 2016.
- How many reviews does Stay Close have on Steam?
- Stay Close has 1,496 Steam reviews, of which 62% are positive.
- Is Stay Close worth playing?
- Steam players rate Stay Close 62% positive across 1,496 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 Stay Close 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, Blind Bird's other releases and Blind Bird's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Stay Close 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 Stay Close 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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