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This detective puzzle game uses audio to solve crimes. Released in 2019, Unheard boasts 30,321 Steam reviews with 96% positive feedback. Next Studios developed and published the title.
Overview
Unheard - Voices of Crime is a 2019 Indie game developed by NEXT Studios and published by NEXT Studios. On Steam it has gathered 33,237 player reviews, 96% of them positive, which counts as a overwhelmingly positive reception among indie titles in the Indie category. The game is available on mac, windows, and launched at $7. The pairing of developer NEXT Studios with publisher NEXT Studios is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Indie projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 1.4 million to 3.3 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, Unheard - Voices of Crime can be compared against similar Indie titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
33,237
Positive
96%
Steam appid
942970
Engine
Unknown
Sales estimate
vv1.01.4M to 3.3M
units (median: 2.3M)
≈ $5.6M to $13.0M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2019 | +15 |
| price_$7 | -5 |
| positive_96% | +10 |
| final NB | 70 |
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 Unheard - Voices of Crime at roughly 1.4 million to 3.3 million copies, with a median around 2.3 million, derived from its 33,237 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $9.3M 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 $4.80Over the last 90 days the price ranged from $4.80 to $6.99, averaging $6.74 across 3 discount windows, with a historical low of $4.80 on 2026-04-17.
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Where to buy
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Platforms
macwindows
Tags
DetectivePuzzleMysteryIndieRPGSimulationStory RichHorrorSingleplayerAtmosphericInvestigationPoint & Click2DTop-DownCrimeShort
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Unheard - Voices of Crime sold?
- indielist estimates Unheard - Voices of Crime has sold between 1,395,954 and 3,257,226 units (median 2,326,590), derived from its 33,237 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter vv1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Unheard - Voices of Crime?
- Unheard - Voices of Crime was developed by NEXT Studios and published by NEXT Studios.
- When was Unheard - Voices of Crime released?
- Unheard - Voices of Crime was released in 2019.
- How many reviews does Unheard - Voices of Crime have on Steam?
- Unheard - Voices of Crime has 33,237 Steam reviews, of which 96% are positive.
Ecosystem
indielist positions Unheard - Voices of Crime within the Indie segment so players can surface comparable titles by shared tags and genre rather than by storefront promotion. On the developer side, NEXT Studios's other releases and NEXT Studios's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Unheard - Voices of Crime 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 Unheard - Voices of Crime page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Indie 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.