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This adventure game, released in 2022, has garnered 9,688 Steam reviews with 93% positive sentiment. Developed and published by pgwave, the title offers a narrative experience.
Overview
The Complex: Found Footage is a 2022 Adventure game developed by pgWave and published by pgWave. On Steam it has gathered 9,732 player reviews, 93% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Adventure category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $5. The pairing of developer pgWave with publisher pgWave 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 292,000 to 681,000 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 Complex: Found Footage can be compared against similar Adventure titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
9,732
Positive
93%
Steam appid
1942120
Engine
Unknown
Sales estimate
vv1.0292K to 681K
units (median: 487K)
≈ $832K to $1.9M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2022 | 0 |
| price_$5 | -20 |
| positive_93% | +10 |
| genre_Adventure | +10 |
| final NB | 50 |
Confidence range: median × [0.6, 1.4]. Boundary protection: NB ∈ [15, 150].
Methodology & limitations
Sales estimates use a multi-factor Boxleiter method against public Steam review counts.
They are not authoritative sales data. Actual sales can deviate by
±50% in either direction. Free-to-play games, deeply discounted titles, and games
with heavy bundle distribution have larger error margins. Algorithm version
v1.0.
indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for The Complex: Found Footage at roughly 292,000 to 681,000 copies, with a median around 487,000, derived from its 9,732 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $1.4M 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
90d · low $2.53Over the last 90 days the price ranged from $2.53 to $4.99, averaging $4.68 across 2 discount windows, with a historical low of $2.53 on 2026-04-05.
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Platforms
windows
Genres
AdventureIndieSimulation
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has The Complex: Found Footage sold?
- indielist estimates The Complex: Found Footage has sold between 291,960 and 681,240 units (median 486,600), derived from its 9,732 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter vv1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed The Complex: Found Footage?
- The Complex: Found Footage was developed by pgWave and published by pgWave.
- When was The Complex: Found Footage released?
- The Complex: Found Footage was released in 2022.
- How many reviews does The Complex: Found Footage have on Steam?
- The Complex: Found Footage has 9,732 Steam reviews, of which 93% are positive.
Ecosystem
indielist positions The Complex: Found Footage within the Adventure segment so players can surface comparable titles by shared tags and genre rather than by storefront promotion. On the developer side, pgWave's other releases and pgWave's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where The Complex: Found Footage 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 Complex: Found Footage 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.