How many copies has Riven sold?

indielist estimates Riven has sold between 138,822 and 323,918 units (median 231,370), derived from its 2,722 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.

Riven was published by Cyan Worlds, Inc., developed by Cyan Worlds, Inc.. See Cyan Worlds, Inc.'s full catalogue and submission status on indielist.

How many reviews does Riven have on Steam?

Riven has 2,722 Steam reviews, of which 92% are positive.

Is Riven worth playing?

Steam players rate Riven 92% positive across 2,722 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.

Riven

Jun 25, 2024 Adventure $34.99

Developer Cyan Worlds, Inc. Publisher Cyan Worlds, Inc.

Profile updated Jun 2026

Adventure players can place Riven in the 2024 indie game space, developed and published by cyan-worlds-inc. It launched at $34.99 and has 2,660 Steam reviews listed as mixed, with the provided positive share shown as 0%.

Riven is a 2024 Adventure game developed by Cyan Worlds, Inc. and published by Cyan Worlds, Inc.. On Steam it has gathered 2,722 player reviews, 92% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Adventure category. The game is available on mac, windows, and launched at $35. The pairing of developer Cyan Worlds, Inc. with publisher Cyan Worlds, 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 method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 139,000 to 324,000 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, Riven can be compared against similar Adventure titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.

Reviews

2,722

Positive

92%

Steam appid

1712350

Engine

Unknown

Players (snapshot)

Unavailable

Sales estimate

v1.0

139K to 324K

units (median: 231K)

≈ $2.8M to $6.5M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)

139K median 324K

+ How is this calculated?

2,722 reviews × NB(85) = 231,370 median units

Factor	Adjustment
base	+50
year_2024	0
price_$35	+15
positive_92%	+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 Riven at roughly 139,000 to 324,000 copies, with a median around 231,000, derived from its 2,722 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $4.6M 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

8 observed days · window low $20.99

Across 8 observed UTC days from 2026-07-15 to 2026-07-22, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $20.99 to $20.99. The tracked-window low was $20.99 on 2026-07-15.

Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.

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Platforms

macwindows

Genres

Adventure CasualIndie

Frequently asked questions

How many copies has Riven sold?: indielist estimates Riven has sold between 138,822 and 323,918 units (median 231,370), derived from its 2,722 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
Who developed Riven?: Riven was developed by Cyan Worlds, Inc. and published by Cyan Worlds, Inc..
Who published Riven?: Riven was published by Cyan Worlds, Inc., developed by Cyan Worlds, Inc.. See Cyan Worlds, Inc.'s full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
When was Riven released?: Riven was released in 2024.
How many reviews does Riven have on Steam?: Riven has 2,722 Steam reviews, of which 92% are positive.
Is Riven worth playing?: Steam players rate Riven 92% positive across 2,722 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.

Players looking for games like Riven can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Adventure titles such as Subnautica, Raft, Satisfactory, Human Fall Flat, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Cyan Worlds, Inc.'s other releases and Cyan Worlds, Inc.'s wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Riven 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 Riven 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.

Matched from shared Steam tags and primary genre. Review count breaks ties; it is not a personal recommendation score.