How many copies has Five Nights at Freddy's sold?

indielist estimates Five Nights at Freddy's has sold between 2,230,662 and 5,204,878 units (median 3,717,770), derived from its 53,111 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.

Who developed Five Nights at Freddy's?

Five Nights at Freddy's was developed by Scott Cawthon and published by Scott Cawthon.

Who published Five Nights at Freddy's?

Five Nights at Freddy's was published by Scott Cawthon, developed by Scott Cawthon. See Scott Cawthon's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.

When was Five Nights at Freddy's released?

Five Nights at Freddy's was released in 2014.

How many reviews does Five Nights at Freddy's have on Steam?

Five Nights at Freddy's has 53,111 Steam reviews, of which 94% are positive.

Is Five Nights at Freddy's worth playing?

Steam players rate Five Nights at Freddy's 94% positive across 53,111 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.

Five Nights at Freddy's

Aug 19, 2014 Indie $4.99

Developer Scott Cawthon Publisher Scott Cawthon

Profile updated May 2026

This 2014 indie simulation game challenges players to survive nightly shifts by monitoring security cameras. With over 52,500 Steam reviews, it gained significant traction. The developer and publisher are currently unknown.

Five Nights at Freddy's is a 2014 Indie game developed by Scott Cawthon and published by Scott Cawthon. On Steam it has gathered 53,111 player reviews, 94% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Indie category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $5. The pairing of developer Scott Cawthon with publisher Scott Cawthon is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Indie projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 2.2 million to 5.2 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, Five Nights at Freddy's can be compared against similar Indie titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.

Reviews

53,111

Positive

94%

Steam appid

319510

Engine

Unknown

Players (snapshot)

121

Historical snapshot · 2026-06-07 12:56 UTC

Sales estimate

v1.0

2.2M to 5.2M

units (median: 3.7M)

≈ $6.4M to $14.8M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)

2.2M median 5.2M

+ How is this calculated?

53,111 reviews × NB(70) = 3,717,770 median units

Factor	Adjustment
base	+50
year_2014	+30
price_$5	-20
positive_94%	+10
final NB	70

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 Five Nights at Freddy's at roughly 2.2 million to 5.2 million copies, with a median around 3.7 million, derived from its 53,111 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $10.6M 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

54 observed days · window low $4.99

Across 54 observed UTC days from 2026-05-31 to 2026-07-24, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $4.99 to $4.99. The tracked-window low was $4.99 on 2026-05-31.

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

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Platforms

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Frequently asked questions

How many copies has Five Nights at Freddy's sold?: indielist estimates Five Nights at Freddy's has sold between 2,230,662 and 5,204,878 units (median 3,717,770), derived from its 53,111 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
Who developed Five Nights at Freddy's?: Five Nights at Freddy's was developed by Scott Cawthon and published by Scott Cawthon.
Who published Five Nights at Freddy's?: Five Nights at Freddy's was published by Scott Cawthon, developed by Scott Cawthon. See Scott Cawthon's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
When was Five Nights at Freddy's released?: Five Nights at Freddy's was released in 2014.
How many reviews does Five Nights at Freddy's have on Steam?: Five Nights at Freddy's has 53,111 Steam reviews, of which 94% are positive.
Is Five Nights at Freddy's worth playing?: Steam players rate Five Nights at Freddy's 94% positive across 53,111 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 Five Nights at Freddy's can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Indie titles such as Five Nights at Freddy's 2, Five Nights at Freddy's 4, Five Nights at Freddy's 3, Five Nights at Freddy's: Sister Location, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Scott Cawthon's other releases and Scott Cawthon's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Five Nights at Freddy's 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 Five Nights at Freddy's page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Indie 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.