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The Headliners is an action game set for release in 2025. It has garnered 8,132 Steam reviews, indicating significant player interest prior to its launch.
Overview
The Headliners is a 2025 Action game developed by KAFI and published by KAFI. On Steam it has gathered 10,298 player reviews, 86% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $8. The pairing of developer KAFI with publisher KAFI is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Action projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 278,000 to 649,000 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 Headliners can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
10,298
Positive
86%
Steam appid
3059070
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
323
Historical snapshot ·
Sales estimate
v1.0278K to 649K
units (median: 463K)
≈ $1.3M to $3.0M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2025 | -10 |
| price_$8 | -5 |
| positive_86% | +10 |
| final NB | 45 |
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 Headliners at roughly 278,000 to 649,000 copies, with a median around 463,000, derived from its 10,298 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $2.1M 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
54 observed days · window low $4.79Across 54 observed UTC days from 2026-05-31 to 2026-07-24, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $4.79 to $7.99. The tracked-window low was $4.79 on 2026-06-26.
Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.
Where to buy
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- Green Man Gaming
- Fanatical
- Humble Store
- GOG.com
Latest tracked store observations (2026-07-24 04:43 UTC), cheapest first. Prices may have changed since observation. Some are affiliate links — we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. Learn more.
Platforms
windows
Tags
Online Co-OpHorrorCo-opFunnyActionMultiplayerIndieAction-AdventureTeam-BasedGoreDestructionFirst-PersonAtmosphericDarkSingleplayerViolentSouls-likeSurvival HorrorPsychological HorrorSexual Content
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has The Headliners sold?
- indielist estimates The Headliners has sold between 278,046 and 648,774 units (median 463,410), derived from its 10,298 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed The Headliners?
- The Headliners was developed by KAFI and published by KAFI.
- Who published The Headliners?
- The Headliners was published by KAFI, developed by KAFI. See KAFI's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was The Headliners released?
- The Headliners was released in 2025.
- How many reviews does The Headliners have on Steam?
- The Headliners has 10,298 Steam reviews, of which 86% are positive.
- Is The Headliners worth playing?
- Steam players rate The Headliners 86% positive across 10,298 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 Headliners can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Action titles such as DEVOUR, Outlast 2, Scorn, PANICORE, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, KAFI's other releases and KAFI's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where The Headliners 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 Headliners page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Action 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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