How many copies has DreadOut sold?

indielist estimates DreadOut has sold between 242,676 and 566,244 units (median 404,460), derived from its 4,494 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.

Who published DreadOut?

DreadOut was published by Digital Happiness, developed by Digital Happiness. See Digital Happiness's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.

How many reviews does DreadOut have on Steam?

DreadOut has 4,494 Steam reviews, of which 77% are positive.

Is DreadOut worth playing?

Steam players rate DreadOut 77% positive across 4,494 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.

DreadOut

May 15, 2014 Adventure $14.99

Developer Digital Happiness Publisher Digital Happiness

Profile updated May 2026

DreadOut is an adventure game released in 2014. It has garnered 4,459 reviews on Steam. The developer and publisher information is not yet imported.

DreadOut is a 2014 Adventure game developed by Digital Happiness and published by Digital Happiness. On Steam it has gathered 4,494 player reviews, 77% of them positive, which counts as a mostly positive reception among indie titles in the Adventure category. The game is available on linux, windows, and launched at $15. The pairing of developer Digital Happiness with publisher Digital Happiness 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 243,000 to 566,000 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, DreadOut can be compared against similar Adventure titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.

Reviews

4,494

Positive

77%

Steam appid

269790

Engine

Unknown

Players (snapshot)

Historical snapshot · 2026-05-24 14:10 UTC

Sales estimate

v1.0

243K to 566K

units (median: 404K)

≈ $2.1M to $4.8M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)

243K median 566K

+ How is this calculated?

4,494 reviews × NB(90) = 404,460 median units

Factor	Adjustment
base	+50
year_2014	+30
price_$15	0
positive_77%	0
genre_Adventure	+10
final NB	90

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 DreadOut at roughly 243,000 to 566,000 copies, with a median around 404,000, derived from its 4,494 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $3.5M 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

26 observed days · window low $5.09

Across 26 observed UTC days from 2026-05-31 to 2026-07-24, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $5.09 to $7.49. The tracked-window low was $5.09 on 2026-07-15.

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

Where to buy

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Humble Store -59%

$6.15 Buy
Fanatical -58%

$7.09 Buy
Steam reference

$14.99 Buy
GOG.com

$14.99 Buy
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Platforms

linuxwindows

Frequently asked questions

How many copies has DreadOut sold?: indielist estimates DreadOut has sold between 242,676 and 566,244 units (median 404,460), derived from its 4,494 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
Who developed DreadOut?: DreadOut was developed by Digital Happiness and published by Digital Happiness.
Who published DreadOut?: DreadOut was published by Digital Happiness, developed by Digital Happiness. See Digital Happiness's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
When was DreadOut released?: DreadOut was released in 2014.
How many reviews does DreadOut have on Steam?: DreadOut has 4,494 Steam reviews, of which 77% are positive.
Is DreadOut worth playing?: Steam players rate DreadOut 77% positive across 4,494 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 DreadOut can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Adventure titles such as What Remains of Edith Finch, Granny, Poppy Playtime, Outlast 2, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Digital Happiness's other releases and Digital Happiness's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where DreadOut 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 DreadOut 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.

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