How many copies has The Painscreek Killings sold?

indielist estimates The Painscreek Killings has sold between 336,900 and 786,100 units (median 561,500), derived from its 5,615 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.

Who developed The Painscreek Killings?

The Painscreek Killings was developed by EQ Studios and published by EQ Studios.

Who published The Painscreek Killings?

The Painscreek Killings was published by EQ Studios, developed by EQ Studios. See EQ Studios's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.

When was The Painscreek Killings released?

The Painscreek Killings was released in 2017.

How many reviews does The Painscreek Killings have on Steam?

The Painscreek Killings has 5,615 Steam reviews, of which 91% are positive.

Is The Painscreek Killings worth playing?

Steam players rate The Painscreek Killings 91% positive across 5,615 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.

The Painscreek Killings

Sep 27, 2017 Adventure $19.99

Developer EQ Studios Publisher EQ Studios

Profile updated Jun 2026

Adventure indie game The Painscreek Killings centers on its genre rather than tag-defined niches. It launched in 2017 from eq-studios, with eq-studios also listed as publisher, and has 5,567 Steam reviews marked mixed at a $19.99 initial price.

The Painscreek Killings is a 2017 Adventure game developed by EQ Studios and published by EQ Studios. On Steam it has gathered 5,615 player reviews, 91% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Adventure category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $20. The pairing of developer EQ Studios with publisher EQ Studios 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 337,000 to 786,000 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, The Painscreek Killings can be compared against similar Adventure titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.

Reviews

5,615

Positive

91%

Steam appid

624270

Engine

Unknown

Players (snapshot)

Unavailable

Sales estimate

v1.0

337K to 786K

units (median: 562K)

≈ $3.8M to $9.0M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)

337K median 786K

+ How is this calculated?

5,615 reviews × NB(100) = 561,500 median units

Factor	Adjustment
base	+50
year_2017	+30
price_$20	0
positive_91%	+10
genre_Adventure	+10
final NB	100

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 The Painscreek Killings at roughly 337,000 to 786,000 copies, with a median around 562,000, derived from its 5,615 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $6.4M 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

8 observed days · window low $9.99

Across 8 observed UTC days from 2026-07-15 to 2026-07-22, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $9.99 to $19.99. The tracked-window low was $9.99 on 2026-07-15.

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Platforms

windows

Genres

AdventureIndie

Frequently asked questions

How many copies has The Painscreek Killings sold?: indielist estimates The Painscreek Killings has sold between 336,900 and 786,100 units (median 561,500), derived from its 5,615 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
Who developed The Painscreek Killings?: The Painscreek Killings was developed by EQ Studios and published by EQ Studios.
Who published The Painscreek Killings?: The Painscreek Killings was published by EQ Studios, developed by EQ Studios. See EQ Studios's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
When was The Painscreek Killings released?: The Painscreek Killings was released in 2017.
How many reviews does The Painscreek Killings have on Steam?: The Painscreek Killings has 5,615 Steam reviews, of which 91% are positive.
Is The Painscreek Killings worth playing?: Steam players rate The Painscreek Killings 91% positive across 5,615 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 The Painscreek Killings 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, EQ Studios's other releases and EQ Studios's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where The Painscreek Killings 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 The Painscreek Killings 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.