How many copies has Dear Esther: Landmark Edition sold?

indielist estimates Dear Esther: Landmark Edition has sold between 122,553 and 285,957 units (median 204,255), derived from its 2,403 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.

Who developed Dear Esther: Landmark Edition?

Dear Esther: Landmark Edition was developed by The Chinese Room and published by Secret Mode.

Who published Dear Esther: Landmark Edition?

Dear Esther: Landmark Edition was published by Secret Mode, developed by The Chinese Room. See Secret Mode's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.

When was Dear Esther: Landmark Edition released?

Dear Esther: Landmark Edition was released in 2017.

How many reviews does Dear Esther: Landmark Edition have on Steam?

Dear Esther: Landmark Edition has 2,403 Steam reviews, of which 75% are positive.

Is Dear Esther: Landmark Edition worth playing?

Steam players rate Dear Esther: Landmark Edition 75% positive across 2,403 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.

Dear Esther: Landmark Edition

Feb 14, 2017 Adventure $9.99

Developer The Chinese Room Publisher Secret Mode

Profile updated Jul 2026

Adventure indie game Dear Esther: Landmark Edition offers a budget-priced entry at $9.99. The 2017 release from the-chinese-room and publisher secret-mode has 2,402 Steam reviews with 75% positive sentiment, signaling mixed-to-positive reception.

Dear Esther: Landmark Edition is a 2017 Adventure game developed by The Chinese Room and published by Secret Mode. On Steam it has gathered 2,403 player reviews, 75% of them positive, which counts as a mixed-to-positive reception among indie titles in the Adventure category. The game is available on mac, windows, and launched at $10. The pairing of developer The Chinese Room with publisher Secret Mode 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 123,000 to 286,000 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, Dear Esther: Landmark Edition can be compared against similar Adventure titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.

Reviews

2,403

Positive

75%

Steam appid

520720

Engine

Unknown

Players (snapshot)

Unavailable

Sales estimate

v1.0

123K to 286K

units (median: 204K)

≈ $699K to $1.6M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)

123K median 286K

+ How is this calculated?

2,403 reviews × NB(85) = 204,255 median units

Factor	Adjustment
base	+50
year_2017	+30
price_$10	-5
positive_75%	0
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 Dear Esther: Landmark Edition at roughly 123,000 to 286,000 copies, with a median around 204,000, derived from its 2,403 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $1.2M 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

9 observed days · window low $1.99

Across 9 observed UTC days from 2026-07-15 to 2026-07-24, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $1.99 to $9.99. The tracked-window low was $1.99 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 CasualIndieFree To Play

Frequently asked questions

How many copies has Dear Esther: Landmark Edition sold?: indielist estimates Dear Esther: Landmark Edition has sold between 122,553 and 285,957 units (median 204,255), derived from its 2,403 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
Who developed Dear Esther: Landmark Edition?: Dear Esther: Landmark Edition was developed by The Chinese Room and published by Secret Mode.
Who published Dear Esther: Landmark Edition?: Dear Esther: Landmark Edition was published by Secret Mode, developed by The Chinese Room. See Secret Mode's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
When was Dear Esther: Landmark Edition released?: Dear Esther: Landmark Edition was released in 2017.
How many reviews does Dear Esther: Landmark Edition have on Steam?: Dear Esther: Landmark Edition has 2,403 Steam reviews, of which 75% are positive.
Is Dear Esther: Landmark Edition worth playing?: Steam players rate Dear Esther: Landmark Edition 75% positive across 2,403 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 Dear Esther: Landmark Edition 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, The Chinese Room's other releases and Secret Mode's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Dear Esther: Landmark Edition 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 Dear Esther: Landmark Edition 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.