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Simulation horror meets detective survival and hacking in this indie game from Reflect Studios. Released in 2020 and self-published by reflect-studios, Scrutinized has 1,347 Steam reviews with 89% positive, a very positive signal for a $9.99 budget pick.
Overview
Scrutinized is a 2020 Indie game developed by Reflect Studios and published by Reflect Studios. On Steam it has gathered 1,291 player reviews, 89% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Indie category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $10. The pairing of developer Reflect Studios with publisher Reflect Studios is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Indie projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 54,000 to 127,000 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, Scrutinized can be compared against similar Indie titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
1,291
Positive
89%
Steam appid
1384770
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.054K to 127K
units (median: 90K)
≈ $309K to $722K modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2020 | +15 |
| price_$10 | -5 |
| positive_89% | +10 |
| final NB | 70 |
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 Scrutinized at roughly 54,000 to 127,000 copies, with a median around 90,000, derived from its 1,291 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $516K 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
14 observed days · window low $9.99Across 14 observed UTC days from 2026-06-03 to 2026-07-22, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $9.99 to $9.99. The tracked-window low was $9.99 on 2026-06-03.
Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.
Where to buy
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Platforms
windows
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Scrutinized sold?
- indielist estimates Scrutinized has sold between 54,222 and 126,518 units (median 90,370), derived from its 1,291 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Scrutinized?
- Scrutinized was developed by Reflect Studios and published by Reflect Studios.
- Who published Scrutinized?
- Scrutinized was published by Reflect Studios, developed by Reflect Studios. See Reflect Studios's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was Scrutinized released?
- Scrutinized was released in 2020.
- How many reviews does Scrutinized have on Steam?
- Scrutinized has 1,291 Steam reviews, of which 89% are positive.
- Is Scrutinized worth playing?
- Steam players rate Scrutinized 89% positive across 1,291 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 Scrutinized can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Indie titles such as Five Nights at Freddy's 2, DEVOUR, Five Nights at Freddy's, Five Nights at Freddy's 4, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Reflect Studios's other releases and Reflect Studios's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Scrutinized 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 Scrutinized page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Indie 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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