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An adventure game released in 2019, Tangle Tower features a mystery narrative. It has received 6,095 Steam reviews with 95% positive ratings. The game was developed and published by SFB Games.
Overview
Tangle Tower is a 2019 Adventure game developed by SFB Games and published by SFB Games. On Steam it has gathered 6,421 player reviews, 95% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Adventure category. The game is available on mac, windows, and launched at $20. The pairing of developer SFB Games with publisher SFB Games 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 327,000 to 764,000 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, Tangle Tower can be compared against similar Adventure titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
6,421
Positive
95%
Steam appid
359510
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.0327K to 764K
units (median: 546K)
≈ $3.7M to $8.7M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2019 | +15 |
| price_$20 | 0 |
| positive_95% | +10 |
| 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 Tangle Tower at roughly 327,000 to 764,000 copies, with a median around 546,000, derived from its 6,421 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $6.2M 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
32 observed days · window low $3.99Across 32 observed UTC days from 2026-06-01 to 2026-07-24, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $3.99 to $19.99. The tracked-window low was $3.99 on 2026-06-01.
Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.
Where to buy
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Platforms
macwindows
Tags
DetectivePoint & ClickExplorationPuzzleVisual NovelStory RichFunny2DMysteryConversationNoirCrimeAtmosphericAdventureSingleplayerComedyIndieInvestigationHand-drawnGreat Soundtrack
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Tangle Tower sold?
- indielist estimates Tangle Tower has sold between 327,471 and 764,099 units (median 545,785), derived from its 6,421 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Tangle Tower?
- Tangle Tower was developed by SFB Games and published by SFB Games.
- Who published Tangle Tower?
- Tangle Tower was published by SFB Games, developed by SFB Games. See SFB Games's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was Tangle Tower released?
- Tangle Tower was released in 2019.
- How many reviews does Tangle Tower have on Steam?
- Tangle Tower has 6,421 Steam reviews, of which 95% are positive.
- Is Tangle Tower worth playing?
- Steam players rate Tangle Tower 95% positive across 6,421 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 Tangle Tower can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Adventure titles such as Gorogoa, The Roottrees are Dead, Lost in Play, Duck Detective: The Secret Salami, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, SFB Games's other releases and SFB Games's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Tangle Tower 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 Tangle Tower 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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- T
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- C
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