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Action indie game The Unliving launched in 2023 from developer rocketbrush-games and publisher team17-digital. It has 751 Steam reviews marked mixed and an initial price of $16.99.
Overview
The Unliving is a 2023 Action game developed by RocketBrush Games and published by Team17 Digital. On Steam it has gathered 755 player reviews, 63% of them positive, which counts as a mixed reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $17. The pairing of developer RocketBrush Games with publisher Team17 Digital 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 18,000 to 42,000 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 Unliving can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
755
Positive
63%
Steam appid
986040
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.018K to 42K
units (median: 30K)
≈ $176K to $410K modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2023 | 0 |
| price_$17 | 0 |
| positive_63% | -10 |
| final NB | 40 |
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 Unliving at roughly 18,000 to 42,000 copies, with a median around 30,000, derived from its 755 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $293K 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
8 observed days · window low $16.99Across 8 observed UTC days from 2026-07-15 to 2026-07-22, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $16.99 to $16.99. The tracked-window low was $16.99 on 2026-07-15.
Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.
Where to buy
Affiliate disclosure- Steam reference$16.99 Buy
- Humble Store$16.99 Buy
- Fanatical -10%$17.44 Buy
- Green Man Gaming
- GOG.com
Latest tracked store observations (2026-07-22 06:18 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
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has The Unliving sold?
- indielist estimates The Unliving has sold between 18,120 and 42,280 units (median 30,200), derived from its 755 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed The Unliving?
- The Unliving was developed by RocketBrush Games and published by Team17 Digital.
- Who published The Unliving?
- The Unliving was published by Team17 Digital, developed by RocketBrush Games. See Team17 Digital's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was The Unliving released?
- The Unliving was released in 2023.
- How many reviews does The Unliving have on Steam?
- The Unliving has 755 Steam reviews, of which 63% are positive.
- Is The Unliving worth playing?
- Steam players rate The Unliving 63% positive across 755 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 Unliving can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Action titles such as Rust, Terraria, Phasmophobia, ARK: Survival Evolved, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, RocketBrush Games's other releases and Team17 Digital's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where The Unliving 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 Unliving 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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