How many copies has Telling Lies sold?

indielist estimates Telling Lies has sold between 48,321 and 112,749 units (median 80,535), derived from its 1,239 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.

Who published Telling Lies?

Telling Lies was published by Annapurna Interactive, developed by Sam Barlow. See Annapurna Interactive's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.

When was Telling Lies released?

Telling Lies was released in 2019.

How many reviews does Telling Lies have on Steam?

Telling Lies has 1,239 Steam reviews, of which 63% are positive.

Is Telling Lies worth playing?

Steam players rate Telling Lies 63% positive across 1,239 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.

Telling Lies

Aug 23, 2019 Adventure $19.99

Developer Sam Barlow Publisher Annapurna Interactive

Profile updated Jul 2026

Adventure indie game built around investigating recorded conversations and piecing together a mystery. Telling Lies launched in 2019 from developer Sam Barlow and publisher Annapurna Interactive, with 1,311 Steam reviews at 63% positive and a $19.99 initial price.

Telling Lies is a 2019 Adventure game developed by Sam Barlow and published by Annapurna Interactive. On Steam it has gathered 1,239 player reviews, 63% of them positive, which counts as a mixed reception among indie titles in the Adventure category. The game is available on mac, windows, and launched at $20. The pairing of developer Sam Barlow with publisher Annapurna Interactive 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 48,000 to 113,000 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, Telling Lies can be compared against similar Adventure titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.

Reviews

1,239

Positive

63%

Steam appid

762830

Engine

Unknown

Players (snapshot)

Unavailable

Sales estimate

v1.0

48K to 113K

units (median: 81K)

≈ $552K to $1.3M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)

48K median 113K

+ How is this calculated?

1,239 reviews × NB(65) = 80,535 median units

Factor	Adjustment
base	+50
year_2019	+15
price_$20	0
positive_63%	-10
genre_Adventure	+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 Telling Lies at roughly 48,000 to 113,000 copies, with a median around 81,000, derived from its 1,239 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $920K 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

6 observed days · window low $4.99

Across 6 observed UTC days from 2026-07-17 to 2026-07-22, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $4.99 to $19.04. The tracked-window low was $4.99 on 2026-07-18.

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

Where to buy

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Steam reference -75%

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GOG.com -75%

$4.99 Buy
Fanatical -10%

$18.99 Buy
Humble Store

$19.99 Buy
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Platforms

macwindows

Genres

AdventureIndieSimulation

Frequently asked questions

How many copies has Telling Lies sold?: indielist estimates Telling Lies has sold between 48,321 and 112,749 units (median 80,535), derived from its 1,239 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
Who developed Telling Lies?: Telling Lies was developed by Sam Barlow and published by Annapurna Interactive.
Who published Telling Lies?: Telling Lies was published by Annapurna Interactive, developed by Sam Barlow. See Annapurna Interactive's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
When was Telling Lies released?: Telling Lies was released in 2019.
How many reviews does Telling Lies have on Steam?: Telling Lies has 1,239 Steam reviews, of which 63% are positive.
Is Telling Lies worth playing?: Steam players rate Telling Lies 63% positive across 1,239 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 Telling Lies 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, Sam Barlow's other releases and Annapurna Interactive's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Telling Lies 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 Telling Lies 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.