How many copies has ABZU sold?

indielist estimates ABZU has sold between 1,314,120 and 3,066,280 units (median 2,190,200), derived from its 21,902 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.

ABZU was developed by Giant Squid and published by 505 Games.

ABZU was published by 505 Games, developed by Giant Squid. See 505 Games's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.

How many reviews does ABZU have on Steam?

ABZU has 21,902 Steam reviews, of which 93% are positive.

Is ABZU worth playing?

Steam players rate ABZU 93% positive across 21,902 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.

ABZU

Aug 2, 2016 Adventure $19.99

Developer Giant Squid Publisher 505 Games

Profile updated Jun 2026

ABZU is an underwater adventure game released in 2016. Developed by Giant Squid and published by 505 Games, it has received 21,736 Steam reviews, with 93% being positive. The game offers a unique exploration experience.

ABZU is a 2016 Adventure game developed by Giant Squid and published by 505 Games. On Steam it has gathered 21,902 player reviews, 93% 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 Giant Squid with publisher 505 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 1.3 million to 3.1 million 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, ABZU can be compared against similar Adventure titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.

Reviews

21,902

Positive

93%

Steam appid

384190

Engine

Unknown

Players (snapshot)

Unavailable

Sales estimate

v1.0

1.3M to 3.1M

units (median: 2.2M)

≈ $15.0M to $35.0M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)

1.3M median 3.1M

+ How is this calculated?

21,902 reviews × NB(100) = 2,190,200 median units

Factor	Adjustment
base	+50
year_2016	+30
price_$20	0
positive_93%	+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 ABZU at roughly 1.3 million to 3.1 million copies, with a median around 2.2 million, derived from its 21,902 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $25.0M 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

50 observed days · window low $4.10

Across 50 observed UTC days from 2026-06-04 to 2026-07-28, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $4.10 to $19.99. The tracked-window low was $4.10 on 2026-07-07.

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 ABZU sold?: indielist estimates ABZU has sold between 1,314,120 and 3,066,280 units (median 2,190,200), derived from its 21,902 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
Who developed ABZU?: ABZU was developed by Giant Squid and published by 505 Games.
Who published ABZU?: ABZU was published by 505 Games, developed by Giant Squid. See 505 Games's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
When was ABZU released?: ABZU was released in 2016.
How many reviews does ABZU have on Steam?: ABZU has 21,902 Steam reviews, of which 93% are positive.
Is ABZU worth playing?: Steam players rate ABZU 93% positive across 21,902 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 ABZU can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Adventure titles such as A Short Hike, The Witness, Spirit of the North, Firewatch, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Giant Squid's other releases and 505 Games's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where ABZU 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 ABZU 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.