Tyranny
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Adventure-focused Tyranny launched in 2016 from developer obsidian-entertainment with paradox-interactive as publisher. On Steam it has 13,199 reviews with an 87% positive rating, marked very positive, and an initial price of $29.99.
Overview
Tyranny is a 2016 Adventure game developed by Obsidian Entertainment and published by Paradox Interactive. On Steam it has gathered 13,206 player reviews, 87% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Adventure category. The game is available on linux, mac, windows, and launched at $30. The pairing of developer Obsidian Entertainment with publisher Paradox 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 832,000 to 1.9 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, Tyranny can be compared against similar Adventure titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
13,206
Positive
87%
Steam appid
362960
Engine
Unknown
Sales estimate
vv1.0832K to 1.9M
units (median: 1.4M)
≈ $14.3M to $33.3M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2016 | +30 |
| price_$30 | +5 |
| positive_87% | +10 |
| genre_Adventure | +10 |
| final NB | 105 |
Confidence range: median × [0.6, 1.4]. Boundary protection: NB ∈ [15, 150].
Methodology & limitations
Sales estimates use a multi-factor Boxleiter method against public Steam review counts.
They are not authoritative sales data. Actual sales can deviate by
±50% in either direction. Free-to-play games, deeply discounted titles, and games
with heavy bundle distribution have larger error margins. Algorithm version
v1.0.
indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for Tyranny at roughly 832,000 to 1.9 million copies, with a median around 1.4 million, derived from its 13,206 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $23.8M 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 $16.32Over the last 90 days the price ranged from $16.32 to $29.99, averaging $28.45 across 3 discount windows, with a historical low of $16.32 on 2026-05-10.
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Where to buy
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Platforms
linuxmacwindows
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Tyranny sold?
- indielist estimates Tyranny has sold between 831,978 and 1,941,282 units (median 1,386,630), derived from its 13,206 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter vv1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Tyranny?
- Tyranny was developed by Obsidian Entertainment and published by Paradox Interactive.
- When was Tyranny released?
- Tyranny was released in 2016.
- How many reviews does Tyranny have on Steam?
- Tyranny has 13,206 Steam reviews, of which 87% are positive.
Ecosystem
indielist positions Tyranny within the Adventure segment so players can surface comparable titles by shared tags and genre rather than by storefront promotion. On the developer side, Obsidian Entertainment's other releases and Paradox Interactive's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Tyranny 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 Tyranny 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.