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For players comparing 2023 indie game releases, The Fabulous Fear Machine comes from developer fictiorama-studios and publisher amc-games. Steam lists 572 reviews at 90% positive, with an initial price of $17.99.
Overview
The Fabulous Fear Machine is a 2023 Indie game developed by Fictiorama Studios and published by AMC Games. On Steam it has gathered 541 player reviews, 89% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Indie category. The game is available on mac, windows, and launched at $18. The pairing of developer Fictiorama Studios with publisher AMC Games is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Indie projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 19,000 to 45,000 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 Fabulous Fear Machine can be compared against similar Indie titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
541
Positive
89%
Steam appid
1540350
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.019K to 45K
units (median: 32K)
≈ $200K to $467K modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2023 | 0 |
| price_$18 | 0 |
| positive_89% | +10 |
| final NB | 60 |
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 Fabulous Fear Machine at roughly 19,000 to 45,000 copies, with a median around 32,000, derived from its 541 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $334K 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
13 observed days · window low $7.19Across 13 observed UTC days from 2026-07-17 to 2026-09-07, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $7.19 to $17.99. The tracked-window low was $7.19 on 2026-09-07.
Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.
Where to buy
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Platforms
macwindows
Genres
IndieSimulationStrategy
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has The Fabulous Fear Machine sold?
- indielist estimates The Fabulous Fear Machine has sold between 19,476 and 45,444 units (median 32,460), derived from its 541 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed The Fabulous Fear Machine?
- The Fabulous Fear Machine was developed by Fictiorama Studios and published by AMC Games.
- Who published The Fabulous Fear Machine?
- The Fabulous Fear Machine was published by AMC Games, developed by Fictiorama Studios. See AMC Games's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was The Fabulous Fear Machine released?
- The Fabulous Fear Machine was released in 2023.
- How many reviews does The Fabulous Fear Machine have on Steam?
- The Fabulous Fear Machine has 541 Steam reviews, of which 89% are positive.
- Is The Fabulous Fear Machine worth playing?
- Steam players rate The Fabulous Fear Machine 89% positive across 541 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 The Fabulous Fear Machine can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Indie titles such as Stardew Valley, Euro Truck Simulator 2, Project Zomboid, Undertale, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Fictiorama Studios's other releases and AMC Games's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where The Fabulous Fear Machine 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 Fabulous Fear Machine page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Indie 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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