The Escapists: The Walking Dead
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Indie game from Team17 Digital Ltd blending The Escapists format with The Walking Dead license. Released in 2015 and published by Team17 Digital Ltd, it has 738 Steam reviews marked mixed and launched at $17.99.
Overview
The Escapists: The Walking Dead is a 2015 Indie game developed by Team17 Digital Ltd and published by Team17 Digital Ltd. On Steam it has gathered 745 player reviews, 64% of them positive, which counts as a mixed reception among indie titles in the Indie category. The game is available on linux, mac, windows, and launched at $18. The pairing of developer Team17 Digital Ltd with publisher Team17 Digital Ltd 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 31,000 to 73,000 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 Escapists: The Walking Dead can be compared against similar Indie titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
745
Positive
64%
Steam appid
388060
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.031K to 73K
units (median: 52K)
≈ $322K to $750K modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2015 | +30 |
| price_$18 | 0 |
| positive_64% | -10 |
| final NB | 70 |
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 Escapists: The Walking Dead at roughly 31,000 to 73,000 copies, with a median around 52,000, derived from its 745 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $536K 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 $3.59Across 8 observed UTC days from 2026-07-15 to 2026-07-22, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $3.59 to $17.99. The tracked-window low was $3.59 on 2026-07-15.
Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.
Where to buy
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Platforms
linuxmacwindows
Genres
IndieStrategy
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has The Escapists: The Walking Dead sold?
- indielist estimates The Escapists: The Walking Dead has sold between 31,290 and 73,010 units (median 52,150), derived from its 745 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed The Escapists: The Walking Dead?
- The Escapists: The Walking Dead was developed by Team17 Digital Ltd and published by Team17 Digital Ltd.
- Who published The Escapists: The Walking Dead?
- The Escapists: The Walking Dead was published by Team17 Digital Ltd, developed by Team17 Digital Ltd. See Team17 Digital Ltd's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was The Escapists: The Walking Dead released?
- The Escapists: The Walking Dead was released in 2015.
- How many reviews does The Escapists: The Walking Dead have on Steam?
- The Escapists: The Walking Dead has 745 Steam reviews, of which 64% are positive.
- Is The Escapists: The Walking Dead worth playing?
- Steam players rate The Escapists: The Walking Dead 64% positive across 745 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 The Escapists: The Walking Dead can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Indie titles such as Stardew Valley, Euro Truck Simulator 2, Project Zomboid, Undertale, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Team17 Digital Ltd's other releases and Team17 Digital Ltd's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where The Escapists: The Walking Dead 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 Escapists: The Walking Dead 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.
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