How many copies has Outer Wilds sold?

indielist estimates Outer Wilds has sold between 4,198,752 and 9,797,088 units (median 6,997,920), derived from its 87,474 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.

Who published Outer Wilds?

Outer Wilds was published by Annapurna Interactive, developed by Mobius Digital. See Annapurna Interactive's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.

When was Outer Wilds released?

Outer Wilds was released in 2020.

How many reviews does Outer Wilds have on Steam?

Outer Wilds has 87,474 Steam reviews, of which 96% are positive.

Is Outer Wilds worth playing?

Steam players rate Outer Wilds 96% positive across 87,474 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.

Outer Wilds

Jun 18, 2020 Action $24.99

Developer Mobius Digital Publisher Annapurna Interactive

Profile updated May 2026

Outer Wilds, released in 2019, is an exploration adventure game. It has over 50,000 Steam reviews with 96% positive sentiment. Published by Annapurna Interactive, this title focuses on mystery and space exploration.

Outer Wilds is a 2020 Action game developed by Mobius Digital and published by Annapurna Interactive. On Steam it has gathered 87,474 player reviews, 96% of them positive, which counts as a overwhelmingly positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $25. The pairing of developer Mobius Digital with publisher Annapurna Interactive 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 4.2 million to 9.8 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, Outer Wilds can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.

Reviews

87,474

Positive

96%

Steam appid

753640

Engine

Unknown

Players (snapshot)

2,251

Historical snapshot · 2026-07-05 19:55 UTC

Sales estimate

v1.0

4.2M to 9.8M

units (median: 7.0M)

≈ $59.9M to $139.8M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)

4.2M median 9.8M

+ How is this calculated?

87,474 reviews × NB(80) = 6,997,920 median units

Factor	Adjustment
base	+50
year_2020	+15
price_$25	+5
positive_96%	+10
final NB	80

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 Outer Wilds at roughly 4.2 million to 9.8 million copies, with a median around 7.0 million, derived from its 87,474 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $99.9M 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

54 observed days · window low $12.49

Across 54 observed UTC days from 2026-05-15 to 2026-07-22, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $12.49 to $24.02. The tracked-window low was $12.49 on 2026-05-31.

Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.

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Platforms

windows

Frequently asked questions

How many copies has Outer Wilds sold?: indielist estimates Outer Wilds has sold between 4,198,752 and 9,797,088 units (median 6,997,920), derived from its 87,474 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
Who developed Outer Wilds?: Outer Wilds was developed by Mobius Digital and published by Annapurna Interactive.
Who published Outer Wilds?: Outer Wilds was published by Annapurna Interactive, developed by Mobius Digital. See Annapurna Interactive's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
When was Outer Wilds released?: Outer Wilds was released in 2020.
How many reviews does Outer Wilds have on Steam?: Outer Wilds has 87,474 Steam reviews, of which 96% are positive.
Is Outer Wilds worth playing?: Steam players rate Outer Wilds 96% positive across 87,474 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 Outer Wilds can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Action titles such as SOMA, The Talos Principle, Deliver Us The Moon, Bendy and the Ink Machine, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Mobius Digital's other releases and Annapurna Interactive's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Outer Wilds 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 Outer Wilds 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.

Matched from shared Steam tags and primary genre. Review count breaks ties; it is not a personal recommendation score.