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Fran Bow is an adventure game released in 2015. It has garnered 19,760 reviews on Steam. The developer and publisher attribution is not yet imported.
Overview
Fran Bow is a 2015 Adventure game developed by Killmonday Games AB and published by Killmonday Games AB. On Steam it has gathered 20,297 player reviews, 97% of them positive, which counts as a overwhelmingly 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 Killmonday Games AB with publisher Killmonday Games AB 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 1.2 million to 2.8 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, Fran Bow can be compared against similar Adventure titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
20,297
Positive
97%
Steam appid
362680
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
141
Historical snapshot ·
Sales estimate
v1.01.2M to 2.8M
units (median: 2.0M)
≈ $10.4M to $24.3M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2015 | +30 |
| price_$15 | 0 |
| positive_97% | +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 Fran Bow at roughly 1.2 million to 2.8 million copies, with a median around 2.0 million, derived from its 20,297 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $17.4M 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
53 observed days · window low $4.49Across 53 observed UTC days from 2026-05-31 to 2026-07-22, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $4.49 to $14.99. The tracked-window low was $4.49 on 2026-06-18.
Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.
Where to buy
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Platforms
linuxmacwindows
Tags
Psychological HorrorStory RichPoint & ClickPuzzleHorrorAdventureIndieDarkSingleplayerAtmosphericFemale ProtagonistGorePsychologicalSurrealDark Fantasy2DFantasyHand-drawnGreat SoundtrackHidden Object
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Fran Bow sold?
- indielist estimates Fran Bow has sold between 1,217,820 and 2,841,580 units (median 2,029,700), derived from its 20,297 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Fran Bow?
- Fran Bow was developed by Killmonday Games AB and published by Killmonday Games AB.
- Who published Fran Bow?
- Fran Bow was published by Killmonday Games AB, developed by Killmonday Games AB. See Killmonday Games AB's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was Fran Bow released?
- Fran Bow was released in 2015.
- How many reviews does Fran Bow have on Steam?
- Fran Bow has 20,297 Steam reviews, of which 97% are positive.
- Is Fran Bow worth playing?
- Steam players rate Fran Bow 97% positive across 20,297 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 Fran Bow can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Adventure titles such as Little Misfortune, Sally Face - Episode One, The Room Two, Lost in Play, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Killmonday Games AB's other releases and Killmonday Games AB's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Fran Bow 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 Fran Bow 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.
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