How many copies has The End Is Nigh sold?

indielist estimates The End Is Nigh has sold between 176,526 and 411,894 units (median 294,210), derived from its 3,269 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.

Who developed The End Is Nigh?

The End Is Nigh was developed by Edmund McMillen and published by Edmund McMillen.

Who published The End Is Nigh?

The End Is Nigh was published by Edmund McMillen, developed by Edmund McMillen. See Edmund McMillen's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.

When was The End Is Nigh released?

The End Is Nigh was released in 2017.

How many reviews does The End Is Nigh have on Steam?

The End Is Nigh has 3,269 Steam reviews, of which 94% are positive.

Is The End Is Nigh worth playing?

Steam players rate The End Is Nigh 94% positive across 3,269 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.

The End Is Nigh

Jul 12, 2017 Action $14.99

Developer Edmund McMillen Publisher Edmund McMillen

Profile updated Jun 2026

Precision platforming drives this action indie game, with difficult platformer challenges and a great soundtrack noted in its tags. Released in 2017 by developer and publisher edmund-mcmillen, it has 3,417 Steam reviews at 94% positive and launched at $14.99.

The End Is Nigh is a 2017 Action game developed by Edmund McMillen and published by Edmund McMillen. On Steam it has gathered 3,269 player reviews, 94% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on linux, mac, windows, and launched at $15. The pairing of developer Edmund McMillen with publisher Edmund McMillen 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 177,000 to 412,000 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, The End Is Nigh can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.

Reviews

3,269

Positive

94%

Steam appid

583470

Engine

Unknown

Players (snapshot)

Unavailable

Sales estimate

v1.0

177K to 412K

units (median: 294K)

≈ $1.5M to $3.5M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)

177K median 412K

+ How is this calculated?

3,269 reviews × NB(90) = 294,210 median units

Factor	Adjustment
base	+50
year_2017	+30
price_$15	0
positive_94%	+10
final NB	90

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 The End Is Nigh at roughly 177,000 to 412,000 copies, with a median around 294,000, derived from its 3,269 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $2.5M 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

14 observed days · window low $14.99

Across 14 observed UTC days from 2026-06-04 to 2026-07-22, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $14.99 to $14.99. The tracked-window low was $14.99 on 2026-06-04.

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

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Platforms

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Frequently asked questions

How many copies has The End Is Nigh sold?: indielist estimates The End Is Nigh has sold between 176,526 and 411,894 units (median 294,210), derived from its 3,269 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
Who developed The End Is Nigh?: The End Is Nigh was developed by Edmund McMillen and published by Edmund McMillen.
Who published The End Is Nigh?: The End Is Nigh was published by Edmund McMillen, developed by Edmund McMillen. See Edmund McMillen's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
When was The End Is Nigh released?: The End Is Nigh was released in 2017.
How many reviews does The End Is Nigh have on Steam?: The End Is Nigh has 3,269 Steam reviews, of which 94% are positive.
Is The End Is Nigh worth playing?: Steam players rate The End Is Nigh 94% positive across 3,269 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 The End Is Nigh can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Action titles such as Celeste, Pizza Tower, SANABI, Jump King, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Edmund McMillen's other releases and Edmund McMillen's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where The End Is Nigh 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 The End Is Nigh 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.

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