How many copies has The Stanley Parable sold?

indielist estimates The Stanley Parable has sold between 2,409,840 and 5,622,960 units (median 4,016,400), derived from its 40,164 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.

Who developed The Stanley Parable?

The Stanley Parable was developed by Galactic Cafe and published by Galactic Cafe.

Who published The Stanley Parable?

The Stanley Parable was published by Galactic Cafe, developed by Galactic Cafe. See Galactic Cafe's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.

When was The Stanley Parable released?

The Stanley Parable was released in 2013.

How many reviews does The Stanley Parable have on Steam?

The Stanley Parable has 40,164 Steam reviews, of which 92% are positive.

Is The Stanley Parable worth playing?

Steam players rate The Stanley Parable 92% positive across 40,164 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 Stanley Parable

Oct 17, 2013 Adventure $14.99

Developer Galactic Cafe Publisher Galactic Cafe

Profile updated Jun 2026

This first-person adventure game, released in 2013, offers a comedic narrative experience. Developed and published by Galactic Cafe, it has garnered 40,006 Steam reviews with 92% positive feedback. Its unique approach to player choice and storytelling has made it a notable indie release.

The Stanley Parable is a 2013 Adventure game developed by Galactic Cafe and published by Galactic Cafe. On Steam it has gathered 40,164 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 linux, mac, windows, and launched at $15. The pairing of developer Galactic Cafe with publisher Galactic Cafe 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 2.4 million to 5.6 million 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 Stanley Parable can be compared against similar Adventure titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.

Reviews

40,164

Positive

92%

Steam appid

221910

Engine

Unknown

Players (snapshot)

Historical snapshot · 2026-06-07 13:16 UTC

Sales estimate

v1.0

2.4M to 5.6M

units (median: 4.0M)

≈ $20.6M to $48.1M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)

2.4M median 5.6M

+ How is this calculated?

40,164 reviews × NB(100) = 4,016,400 median units

Factor	Adjustment
base	+50
year_2013	+30
price_$15	0
positive_92%	+10
genre_Adventure	+10
final NB	100

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 Stanley Parable at roughly 2.4 million to 5.6 million copies, with a median around 4.0 million, derived from its 40,164 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $34.4M 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

50 observed days · window low $7.49

Across 50 observed UTC days from 2026-06-03 to 2026-07-22, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $7.49 to $14.99. The tracked-window low was $7.49 on 2026-06-12.

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 Stanley Parable sold?: indielist estimates The Stanley Parable has sold between 2,409,840 and 5,622,960 units (median 4,016,400), derived from its 40,164 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
Who developed The Stanley Parable?: The Stanley Parable was developed by Galactic Cafe and published by Galactic Cafe.
Who published The Stanley Parable?: The Stanley Parable was published by Galactic Cafe, developed by Galactic Cafe. See Galactic Cafe's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
When was The Stanley Parable released?: The Stanley Parable was released in 2013.
How many reviews does The Stanley Parable have on Steam?: The Stanley Parable has 40,164 Steam reviews, of which 92% are positive.
Is The Stanley Parable worth playing?: Steam players rate The Stanley Parable 92% positive across 40,164 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 Stanley Parable can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Adventure titles such as The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe, Firewatch, The Beginner's Guide, Little Inferno, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Galactic Cafe's other releases and Galactic Cafe's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where The Stanley Parable 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 Stanley Parable 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.