Genre HorrorReleased Sep 4, 2013

Outlast

Developed and published by Red Barrels
Estimated lifetime revenue
$13.21M
Gross, before Steam's cut
Net revenue
$9.41M
After Steam's 29% cut
Units sold
1.69M
≈ 12 sales per review
Confidence
High
Based on 139,582 reviews
How we estimate →
Reviews
139,582
Overwhelmingly Positive96% positive
Playing now
653
25-day peak 653 · low 169
New reviews, last 25 days
+743
≈ 30 a day since Sep 16

History

Sep 16 – Oct 11

139.6K139.4K139.1K138.8K
Sep 16Sep 28Oct 11

Total Steam reviews. The slope is the signal: a steady climb long after launch means the game is still selling.

How it compares

Horror →

Against the 110 most-reviewed Horror games on Steam

Outearns 33% of them — below the group's median.

Median
$21.03M
117,238 reviews
Top 10% start at
$80.93M
This game
$13.21M
59th pct. by reviews

The group is the games with the most reviews under this tag, not every release, so it leans toward games that sold — a percentile here is a harder test than the same percentile across the whole store would be.

About

Hell is an experiment you can't survive in Outlast, a first-person survival horror game developed by veterans of some of the biggest game franchises in history. As investigative journalist Miles Upshur, explore Mount Massive Asylum and try to survive long enough to discover its terrible secret... if you dare.

Developer
Red Barrels
Publisher
Red Barrels
Genre
Horror
Released
Sep 4, 2013
Steam app ID
238320
Data updated
Oct 11, 2026
Estimates, not reported sales. No developer-published figures are on file for this game. See the methodology for how the numbers are built.