How many copies has The Black Watchmen sold?

indielist estimates The Black Watchmen has sold between 35,454 and 82,726 units (median 59,090), derived from its 622 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.

Who developed The Black Watchmen?

The Black Watchmen was developed by Alice & Smith and published by Alice & Smith.

Who published The Black Watchmen?

The Black Watchmen was published by Alice & Smith, developed by Alice & Smith. See Alice & Smith's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.

When was The Black Watchmen released?

The Black Watchmen was released in 2015.

How many reviews does The Black Watchmen have on Steam?

The Black Watchmen has 622 Steam reviews, of which 88% are positive.

Is The Black Watchmen worth playing?

Steam players rate The Black Watchmen 88% positive across 622 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.

The Black Watchmen

Aug 27, 2015 Adventure $9.99

Developer Alice & Smith Publisher Alice & Smith

Profile updated Jul 2026

Adventure indie game players looking for a budget pick can find The Black Watchmen at $9.99. Released in 2015, it has 747 Steam reviews with 88% positive sentiment and is developed and published by alice-smith.

The Black Watchmen is a 2015 Adventure game developed by Alice & Smith and published by Alice & Smith. On Steam it has gathered 622 player reviews, 88% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Adventure category. The game is available on mac, windows, and launched at $10. The pairing of developer Alice & Smith with publisher Alice & Smith 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 35,000 to 83,000 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, The Black Watchmen can be compared against similar Adventure titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.

Reviews

622

Positive

88%

Steam appid

349220

Engine

Unknown

Players (snapshot)

Unavailable

Sales estimate

v1.0

35K to 83K

units (median: 59K)

≈ $202K to $472K modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)

35K median 83K

+ How is this calculated?

622 reviews × NB(95) = 59,090 median units

Factor	Adjustment
base	+50
year_2015	+30
price_$10	-5
positive_88%	+10
genre_Adventure	+10
final NB	95

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 The Black Watchmen at roughly 35,000 to 83,000 copies, with a median around 59,000, derived from its 622 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $337K 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

14 observed days · window low $9.99

Across 14 observed UTC days from 2026-07-15 to 2026-09-01, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $9.99 to $9.99. The tracked-window low was $9.99 on 2026-07-15.

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

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Platforms

macwindows

Genres

AdventureIndieRPG

Frequently asked questions

How many copies has The Black Watchmen sold?: indielist estimates The Black Watchmen has sold between 35,454 and 82,726 units (median 59,090), derived from its 622 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
Who developed The Black Watchmen?: The Black Watchmen was developed by Alice & Smith and published by Alice & Smith.
Who published The Black Watchmen?: The Black Watchmen was published by Alice & Smith, developed by Alice & Smith. See Alice & Smith's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
When was The Black Watchmen released?: The Black Watchmen was released in 2015.
How many reviews does The Black Watchmen have on Steam?: The Black Watchmen has 622 Steam reviews, of which 88% are positive.
Is The Black Watchmen worth playing?: Steam players rate The Black Watchmen 88% positive across 622 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 The Black Watchmen 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, Alice & Smith's other releases and Alice & Smith's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where The Black Watchmen 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 The Black Watchmen 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.