How many copies has The Endless Empty sold?

indielist estimates The Endless Empty has sold between 12,012 and 28,028 units (median 20,020), derived from its 308 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.

Who developed The Endless Empty?

The Endless Empty was developed by Erik Sheader-Smith and published by Erik Sheader-Smith.

Who published The Endless Empty?

The Endless Empty was published by Erik Sheader-Smith, developed by Erik Sheader-Smith. See Erik Sheader-Smith's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.

When was The Endless Empty released?

The Endless Empty was released in 2018.

How many reviews does The Endless Empty have on Steam?

The Endless Empty has 308 Steam reviews, of which 97% are positive.

Is The Endless Empty worth playing?

Steam players rate The Endless Empty 97% positive across 308 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 Endless Empty

Nov 3, 2018 Adventure $3.99

Developer Erik Sheader-Smith Publisher Erik Sheader-Smith

Profile updated Jul 2026

Adventure indie game The Endless Empty offers a budget entry point at $3.99. Released in 2018 by developer and publisher Erik Sheader-Smith, it has 303 Steam reviews with 96% positive, giving it a strong hidden-gem signal despite modest review volume.

The Endless Empty is a 2018 Adventure game developed by Erik Sheader-Smith and published by Erik Sheader-Smith. On Steam it has gathered 308 player reviews, 97% of them positive, which counts as a overwhelmingly positive reception among indie titles in the Adventure category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $4. The pairing of developer Erik Sheader-Smith with publisher Erik Sheader-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 12,000 to 28,000 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 Endless Empty can be compared against similar Adventure titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.

Reviews

308

Positive

97%

Steam appid

959410

Engine

Unknown

Players (snapshot)

Unavailable

Sales estimate

v1.0

12K to 28K

units (median: 20K)

≈ $27K to $64K modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)

12K median 28K

+ How is this calculated?

308 reviews × NB(65) = 20,020 median units

Factor	Adjustment
base	+50
year_2018	+15
price_$4	-20
positive_97%	+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 The Endless Empty at roughly 12,000 to 28,000 copies, with a median around 20,000, derived from its 308 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $46K 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

15 observed days · window low $3.99

Across 15 observed UTC days from 2026-07-15 to 2026-09-04, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $3.99 to $3.99. The tracked-window low was $3.99 on 2026-07-15.

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

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Platforms

windows

Genres

AdventureIndieRPG

Frequently asked questions

How many copies has The Endless Empty sold?: indielist estimates The Endless Empty has sold between 12,012 and 28,028 units (median 20,020), derived from its 308 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
Who developed The Endless Empty?: The Endless Empty was developed by Erik Sheader-Smith and published by Erik Sheader-Smith.
Who published The Endless Empty?: The Endless Empty was published by Erik Sheader-Smith, developed by Erik Sheader-Smith. See Erik Sheader-Smith's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
When was The Endless Empty released?: The Endless Empty was released in 2018.
How many reviews does The Endless Empty have on Steam?: The Endless Empty has 308 Steam reviews, of which 97% are positive.
Is The Endless Empty worth playing?: Steam players rate The Endless Empty 97% positive across 308 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 Endless Empty 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, Erik Sheader-Smith's other releases and Erik Sheader-Smith's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where The Endless Empty 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 Endless Empty 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.