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The Witness is an adventure game released in 2016. It has received 16,628 reviews on Steam. The developer and publisher are not yet imported.
Overview
The Witness is a 2016 Adventure game developed by Thekla, Inc. and published by Thekla, Inc.. On Steam it has gathered 16,694 player reviews, 84% of them positive, which counts as a mostly positive reception among indie titles in the Adventure category. The game is available on mac, windows, and launched at $40. The pairing of developer Thekla, Inc. with publisher Thekla, Inc. 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 model estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 1.1 million to 2.5 million 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 Witness can be compared against similar Adventure titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
16,694
Positive
84%
Steam appid
210970
Engine
n/a
Sales estimate
vv1.01.1M to 2.5M
units (median: 1.8M)
≈ $24.0M to $56.1M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for The Witness at roughly 1.1 million to 2.5 million copies, with a median around 1.8 million, derived from its 16,694 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter model (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $40.0M 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
90d · low $21.78Over the last 90 days the price ranged from $21.78 to $39.99, averaging $37.30 across 2 discount windows, with a historical low of $21.78 on 2026-04-23.
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Platforms
macwindows
Tags
PuzzleExplorationFirst-PersonOpen WorldSingleplayerColorfulIndieAtmosphericDifficultWalking SimulatorAdventureMysteryNonlinearPhilosophicalRelaxingSurrealCasualGreat SoundtrackStory RichBeautiful
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has The Witness sold?
- indielist estimates The Witness has sold between 1,051,722 and 2,454,018 units (median 1,752,870), derived from its 16,694 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter vv1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed The Witness?
- The Witness was developed by Thekla, Inc. and published by Thekla, Inc..
- When was The Witness released?
- The Witness was released in 2016.
- How many reviews does The Witness have on Steam?
- The Witness has 16,694 Steam reviews, of which 84% are positive.
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has The Witness sold?
- indielist estimates The Witness has sold between 1,051,722 and 2,454,018 units (median 1,752,870), derived from its 16,694 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter vv1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed The Witness?
- The Witness was developed by Thekla, Inc. and published by Thekla, Inc..
- When was The Witness released?
- The Witness was released in 2016.
- How many reviews does The Witness have on Steam?
- The Witness has 16,694 Steam reviews, of which 84% are positive.
Ecosystem
indielist positions The Witness within the Adventure segment so players can surface comparable titles by shared tags and genre rather than by storefront promotion. On the developer side, Thekla, Inc.'s other releases and Thekla, Inc.'s wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where The Witness 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 Witness 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.