Stormhill Mystery: Family Shadows
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Adventure indie game Stormhill Mystery: Family Shadows sits in a budget mystery niche at $6.99. Launched in 2019 by developer and publisher Specialbit Studio, it has 153 Steam reviews marked mixed, with the input listing 0% positive.
Overview
Stormhill Mystery: Family Shadows is a 2019 Adventure game developed by Specialbit Studio and published by Specialbit Studio. On Steam it has gathered 153 player reviews, 80% of them positive, which counts as a mostly positive reception among indie titles in the Adventure category. The game is available on mac, windows, and launched at $7. The pairing of developer Specialbit Studio with publisher Specialbit Studio 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 6,000 to 15,000 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, Stormhill Mystery: Family Shadows can be compared against similar Adventure titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
153
Positive
80%
Steam appid
968820
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.06K to 15K
units (median: 11K)
≈ $26K to $60K modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2019 | +15 |
| price_$7 | -5 |
| positive_80% | 0 |
| genre_Adventure | +10 |
| final NB | 70 |
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 Stormhill Mystery: Family Shadows at roughly 6,000 to 15,000 copies, with a median around 11,000, derived from its 153 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $43K 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
No tracked store price observations are available for this game in the last 90 days.
Where to buy
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- GOG.com
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Platforms
macwindows
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Stormhill Mystery: Family Shadows sold?
- indielist estimates Stormhill Mystery: Family Shadows has sold between 6,426 and 14,994 units (median 10,710), derived from its 153 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Stormhill Mystery: Family Shadows?
- Stormhill Mystery: Family Shadows was developed by Specialbit Studio and published by Specialbit Studio.
- Who published Stormhill Mystery: Family Shadows?
- Stormhill Mystery: Family Shadows was published by Specialbit Studio, developed by Specialbit Studio. See Specialbit Studio's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was Stormhill Mystery: Family Shadows released?
- Stormhill Mystery: Family Shadows was released in 2019.
- How many reviews does Stormhill Mystery: Family Shadows have on Steam?
- Stormhill Mystery: Family Shadows has 153 Steam reviews, of which 80% are positive.
- Is Stormhill Mystery: Family Shadows worth playing?
- Steam players rate Stormhill Mystery: Family Shadows 80% positive across 153 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 Stormhill Mystery: Family Shadows 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, Specialbit Studio's other releases and Specialbit Studio's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Stormhill Mystery: Family Shadows 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 Stormhill Mystery: Family Shadows 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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