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Action indie game Emily Wants To Play puts its genre first as a budget 2015 release from developer shawn-hitchcock. It has 2,049 Steam reviews marked mixed at 0% positive and was published by hitchcock-games at an initial $4.99 price.
Overview
Emily Wants To Play is a 2015 Action game developed by Shawn Hitchcock and published by Hitchcock Games. On Steam it has gathered 2,049 player reviews, 78% of them positive, which counts as a mostly positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on mac, windows, and launched at $5. The pairing of developer Shawn Hitchcock with publisher Hitchcock Games 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 74,000 to 172,000 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, Emily Wants To Play can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
2,049
Positive
78%
Steam appid
416590
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.074K to 172K
units (median: 123K)
≈ $210K to $491K modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2015 | +30 |
| price_$5 | -20 |
| positive_78% | 0 |
| final NB | 60 |
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 Emily Wants To Play at roughly 74,000 to 172,000 copies, with a median around 123,000, derived from its 2,049 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $350K 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
1 observed day · window low $4.99Across 1 observed UTC day from 2026-07-26 to 2026-07-26, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $4.99 to $4.99. The tracked-window low was $4.99 on 2026-07-26.
Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.
Where to buy
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Platforms
macwindows
Genres
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Emily Wants To Play sold?
- indielist estimates Emily Wants To Play has sold between 73,764 and 172,116 units (median 122,940), derived from its 2,049 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Emily Wants To Play?
- Emily Wants To Play was developed by Shawn Hitchcock and published by Hitchcock Games.
- Who published Emily Wants To Play?
- Emily Wants To Play was published by Hitchcock Games, developed by Shawn Hitchcock. See Hitchcock Games's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was Emily Wants To Play released?
- Emily Wants To Play was released in 2015.
- How many reviews does Emily Wants To Play have on Steam?
- Emily Wants To Play has 2,049 Steam reviews, of which 78% are positive.
- Is Emily Wants To Play worth playing?
- Steam players rate Emily Wants To Play 78% positive across 2,049 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 Emily Wants To Play 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, Shawn Hitchcock's other releases and Hitchcock Games's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Emily Wants To Play 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 Emily Wants To Play 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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