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Adventure indie game focused on story-rich investigation, open world exploration, and a female protagonist. Paradise Killer released in 2020 from Kaizen Game Works with Fellow Traveller publishing, and has 4,433 Steam reviews at 93% positive.
Overview
Paradise Killer is a 2020 Adventure game developed by Kaizen Game Works and published by Fellow Traveller. On Steam it has gathered 3,256 player reviews, 93% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Adventure category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $20. The pairing of developer Kaizen Game Works with publisher Fellow Traveller 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 166,000 to 387,000 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, Paradise Killer can be compared against similar Adventure titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
3,256
Positive
93%
Steam appid
1160220
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.0166K to 387K
units (median: 277K)
≈ $1.9M to $4.4M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2020 | +15 |
| price_$20 | 0 |
| positive_93% | +10 |
| genre_Adventure | +10 |
| final NB | 85 |
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 Paradise Killer at roughly 166,000 to 387,000 copies, with a median around 277,000, derived from its 3,256 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $3.2M 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
17 observed days · window low $4.99Across 17 observed UTC days from 2026-06-03 to 2026-07-22, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $4.99 to $19.99. The tracked-window low was $4.99 on 2026-06-03.
Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.
Where to buy
Affiliate disclosure- Steam reference -75%$4.99 Buy
- Humble Store$19.99 Buy
- GOG.com$19.99 Buy
- Green Man Gaming
- Fanatical
Latest tracked store observations (2026-07-22 04:27 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
Tags
Story RichInvestigationFemale ProtagonistOpen WorldExplorationDetectiveFirst-PersonSurrealPoint & ClickChoices MatterRPGStylizedMultiple EndingsMysteryCrimeAtmosphericPsychedelicAdventureGreat SoundtrackSingleplayer
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Paradise Killer sold?
- indielist estimates Paradise Killer has sold between 166,056 and 387,464 units (median 276,760), derived from its 3,256 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Paradise Killer?
- Paradise Killer was developed by Kaizen Game Works and published by Fellow Traveller.
- Who published Paradise Killer?
- Paradise Killer was published by Fellow Traveller, developed by Kaizen Game Works. See Fellow Traveller's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was Paradise Killer released?
- Paradise Killer was released in 2020.
- How many reviews does Paradise Killer have on Steam?
- Paradise Killer has 3,256 Steam reviews, of which 93% are positive.
- Is Paradise Killer worth playing?
- Steam players rate Paradise Killer 93% positive across 3,256 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 Paradise Killer can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Adventure titles such as The Forgotten City, Tangle Tower, Sable, Kentucky Route Zero: PC Edition, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Kaizen Game Works's other releases and Fellow Traveller's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Paradise Killer 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 Paradise Killer 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.
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