How many copies has Wayward sold?

indielist estimates Wayward has sold between 68,970 and 160,930 units (median 114,950), derived from its 1,210 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.

Who developed Wayward?

Wayward was developed by Unlok and published by Unlok.

Who published Wayward?

Wayward was published by Unlok, developed by Unlok. See Unlok's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.

How many reviews does Wayward have on Steam?

Wayward has 1,210 Steam reviews, of which 86% are positive.

Is Wayward worth playing?

Steam players rate Wayward 86% positive across 1,210 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.

Wayward

Apr 22, 2016 Adventure $7.99

Developer Unlok Publisher Unlok

Profile updated Jun 2026

Adventure indie game Wayward comes from unlok, with the same slug listed for developer and publisher. Released in 2016, it has 1,208 Steam reviews marked mixed at 0% positive and an initial budget price of $7.99.

Wayward is a 2016 Adventure game developed by Unlok and published by Unlok. On Steam it has gathered 1,210 player reviews, 86% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Adventure category. The game is available on linux, mac, windows, and launched at $8. The pairing of developer Unlok with publisher Unlok 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 69,000 to 161,000 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, Wayward can be compared against similar Adventure titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.

Reviews

1,210

Positive

86%

Steam appid

379210

Engine

Unknown

Players (snapshot)

Unavailable

Sales estimate

v1.0

69K to 161K

units (median: 115K)

≈ $315K to $734K modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)

69K median 161K

+ How is this calculated?

1,210 reviews × NB(95) = 114,950 median units

Factor	Adjustment
base	+50
year_2016	+30
price_$8	-5
positive_86%	+10
genre_Adventure	+10
final NB	95

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 Wayward at roughly 69,000 to 161,000 copies, with a median around 115,000, derived from its 1,210 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $525K 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 $7.99

Across 8 observed UTC days from 2026-07-15 to 2026-07-22, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $7.99 to $7.99. The tracked-window low was $7.99 on 2026-07-15.

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

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Platforms

linuxmacwindows

Genres

AdventureIndieRPG SimulationEarly Access

Frequently asked questions

How many copies has Wayward sold?: indielist estimates Wayward has sold between 68,970 and 160,930 units (median 114,950), derived from its 1,210 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
Who developed Wayward?: Wayward was developed by Unlok and published by Unlok.
Who published Wayward?: Wayward was published by Unlok, developed by Unlok. See Unlok's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
When was Wayward released?: Wayward was released in 2016.
How many reviews does Wayward have on Steam?: Wayward has 1,210 Steam reviews, of which 86% are positive.
Is Wayward worth playing?: Steam players rate Wayward 86% positive across 1,210 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 Wayward 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, Unlok's other releases and Unlok's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Wayward 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 Wayward 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.