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Adventure indie game Oxenfree centers on story-driven play, released in 2016 by Night School Studio. It is self-published under the same studio, with 12,081 Steam reviews at 91% positive, and an initial $9.99 price point for budget-conscious players.
Overview
Oxenfree is a 2016 Adventure game developed by Night School Studio and published by Night School Studio. On Steam it has gathered 9,474 player reviews to date. The game is available on linux, mac, windows, and launched at $10. The pairing of developer Night School Studio with publisher Night School Studio 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 483,000 to 1.1 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, Oxenfree can be compared against similar Adventure titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
9,474
Positive
Unknown
Steam appid
388880
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.0483K to 1.1M
units (median: 805K)
≈ $2.8M to $6.4M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2016 | +30 |
| price_$10 | -5 |
| positive_80% | 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 Oxenfree at roughly 483,000 to 1.1 million copies, with a median around 805,000, derived from its 9,474 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $4.6M 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
30 observed days · window low $9.99Across 30 observed UTC days from 2026-06-22 to 2026-07-21, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $9.99 to $9.99. The tracked-window low was $9.99 on 2026-06-22.
Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.
Where to buy
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Platforms
linuxmacwindows
Genres
AdventureIndie
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Oxenfree sold?
- indielist estimates Oxenfree has sold between 483,174 and 1,127,406 units (median 805,290), derived from its 9,474 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Oxenfree?
- Oxenfree was developed by Night School Studio and published by Night School Studio.
- Who published Oxenfree?
- Oxenfree was published by Night School Studio, developed by Night School Studio. See Night School Studio's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was Oxenfree released?
- Oxenfree was released in 2016.
- How many reviews does Oxenfree have on Steam?
- Oxenfree has 9,474 Steam reviews.
Ecosystem
Players looking for games like Oxenfree 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, Night School Studio's other releases and Night School Studio's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Oxenfree 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 Oxenfree 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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