How many copies has The Unfinished Swan sold?

indielist estimates The Unfinished Swan has sold between 84,825 and 197,925 units (median 141,375), derived from its 1,885 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.

Who developed The Unfinished Swan?

The Unfinished Swan was developed by Giant Sparrow and published by Annapurna Interactive.

Who published The Unfinished Swan?

The Unfinished Swan was published by Annapurna Interactive, developed by Giant Sparrow. See Annapurna Interactive's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.

When was The Unfinished Swan released?

The Unfinished Swan was released in 2020.

How many reviews does The Unfinished Swan have on Steam?

The Unfinished Swan has 1,885 Steam reviews, of which 83% are positive.

Is The Unfinished Swan worth playing?

Steam players rate The Unfinished Swan 83% positive across 1,885 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 Unfinished Swan

Sep 10, 2020 Adventure $14.99

Developer Giant Sparrow Publisher Annapurna Interactive

Profile updated Jun 2026

Adventure puzzle-platformer with exploration-focused indie game tags, The Unfinished Swan comes from Giant Sparrow and publisher Annapurna Interactive. Its 2020 Steam release lists 1,965 reviews at 84% positive, with an initial price of $14.99.

The Unfinished Swan is a 2020 Adventure game developed by Giant Sparrow and published by Annapurna Interactive. On Steam it has gathered 1,885 player reviews, 83% of them positive, which counts as a mostly positive reception among indie titles in the Adventure category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $15. The pairing of developer Giant Sparrow with publisher Annapurna Interactive 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 85,000 to 198,000 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 Unfinished Swan can be compared against similar Adventure titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.

Reviews

1,885

Positive

83%

Steam appid

1206430

Engine

Unknown

Players (snapshot)

Unavailable

Sales estimate

v1.0

85K to 198K

units (median: 141K)

≈ $726K to $1.7M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)

85K median 198K

+ How is this calculated?

1,885 reviews × NB(75) = 141,375 median units

Factor	Adjustment
base	+50
year_2020	+15
price_$15	0
positive_83%	0
genre_Adventure	+10
final NB	75

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 Unfinished Swan at roughly 85,000 to 198,000 copies, with a median around 141,000, derived from its 1,885 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $1.2M 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 $3.50

Across 15 observed UTC days from 2026-07-15 to 2026-09-03, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $3.50 to $14.51. The tracked-window low was $3.50 on 2026-07-23.

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

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Platforms

windows

Frequently asked questions

How many copies has The Unfinished Swan sold?: indielist estimates The Unfinished Swan has sold between 84,825 and 197,925 units (median 141,375), derived from its 1,885 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
Who developed The Unfinished Swan?: The Unfinished Swan was developed by Giant Sparrow and published by Annapurna Interactive.
Who published The Unfinished Swan?: The Unfinished Swan was published by Annapurna Interactive, developed by Giant Sparrow. See Annapurna Interactive's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
When was The Unfinished Swan released?: The Unfinished Swan was released in 2020.
How many reviews does The Unfinished Swan have on Steam?: The Unfinished Swan has 1,885 Steam reviews, of which 83% are positive.
Is The Unfinished Swan worth playing?: Steam players rate The Unfinished Swan 83% positive across 1,885 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 Unfinished Swan can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Adventure titles such as Journey, The Witness, GRIS, Gorogoa, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Giant Sparrow's other releases and Annapurna Interactive's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where The Unfinished Swan 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 Unfinished Swan 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.