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Action-focused indie game Diplomacy is Not an Option launched in 2024 from Door 407, with the developer also acting as publisher. On Steam it has 12,098 reviews at 86% positive, and its initial price is $29.99.
Overview
Diplomacy is Not an Option is a 2024 Action game developed by Door 407 and published by Door 407. On Steam it has gathered 10,650 player reviews to date. The game is available on windows, and launched at $30. The pairing of developer Door 407 with publisher Door 407 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 351,000 to 820,000 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, Diplomacy is Not an Option can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
10,650
Positive
Unknown
Steam appid
1272320
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.0351K to 820K
units (median: 586K)
≈ $6.0M to $14.0M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2024 | 0 |
| price_$30 | +5 |
| positive_80% | 0 |
| final NB | 55 |
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 Diplomacy is Not an Option at roughly 351,000 to 820,000 copies, with a median around 586,000, derived from its 10,650 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $10.0M 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
42 observed days · window low $10.76Across 42 observed UTC days from 2026-06-10 to 2026-07-21, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $10.76 to $11.99. The tracked-window low was $10.76 on 2026-06-26.
Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.
Where to buy
Affiliate disclosure- Fanatical -10%$29.63 Buy
- Steam reference$29.99 Buy
- Green Man Gaming$29.99 Buy
- Humble Store$29.99 Buy
- GOG.com$29.99 Buy
Latest tracked store observations (2026-07-21 20:39 UTC), cheapest first. Prices may have changed since observation. Some are affiliate links — we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. Learn more.
Platforms
windows
Genres
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Diplomacy is Not an Option sold?
- indielist estimates Diplomacy is Not an Option has sold between 351,450 and 820,050 units (median 585,750), derived from its 10,650 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Diplomacy is Not an Option?
- Diplomacy is Not an Option was developed by Door 407 and published by Door 407.
- Who published Diplomacy is Not an Option?
- Diplomacy is Not an Option was published by Door 407, developed by Door 407. See Door 407's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was Diplomacy is Not an Option released?
- Diplomacy is Not an Option was released in 2024.
- How many reviews does Diplomacy is Not an Option have on Steam?
- Diplomacy is Not an Option has 10,650 Steam reviews.
Ecosystem
Players looking for games like Diplomacy is Not an Option can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Action titles such as Rust, Terraria, Phasmophobia, ARK: Survival Evolved, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Door 407's other releases and Door 407's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Diplomacy is Not an Option 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 Diplomacy is Not an Option 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.
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