The Watchers

View on Steam

The Watchers

Short description

The Watchers is a haunting co-op stealth game in which 2 players take control of a brother and sister trying to uncover the truth behind their mother’s disappearance. Explore the sinister compound of a local cult and work together to evade brutal enemies. But be careful. You’re being watched.

Developer
Straight Back Games
Publisher
Straight Back Games
Release
Thu, Feb 06, 2020
Price
$4.99
Reviews
442
Positive
74%
Followers
1,477
Owners (estimated)
100K – 200K
Concurrent players
n/a
Genres
Action, Indie
Features
Multi-player, Co-op, Online Co-op, Cross-Platform Multiplayer, Partial Controller Support
Tags
Indie Action Horror Online Co-Op Multiplayer Co-op Puzzle Stealth Difficult First-Person Atmospheric Dark Great Soundtrack
Revenue (estimated, gross)~$97ksomewhere between $43k and $972k · roughly 9K–200K copies

Review count and SteamSpy's owner range disagree, so the band is widened to cover both rather than picking a favourite. Multiplied by $4.86, the average price these copies actually sold for — weighted from the price history rather than taken from the $4.99 launch price. That is 3% below list price on average. Before Steam's cut, VAT and refunds. How these numbers are calculated.

Waiting for The Watchers to get cheaper? Name your price and we will email you when it gets there.

Watch this game Free account, no card. Already have one?

History

11 data points since Aug 13, 2026. Gaps mean nothing changed — the value carries forward.

Revenue (est.) ~$96k → ~$97k
Reviews 440 → 442
Followers 1,465 → 1,477
Price $4.99 → $4.99
Positive reviews 74.8% → 74.4%

The revenue curve is an estimate, not a measurement. It is the only calculated series here: each interval takes the review growth of that period, multiplies it by the sales-per-review factor and by the price actually charged at the time, and adds the result to the running total. That is why it climbs more slowly through discount periods than the review curve next to it. The last point is the same figure quoted above — gross, before Steam's cut, VAT and refunds. How these numbers are calculated.

The blurred area is the rest of the history. 143 further data points reach back to Feb 1, 2020 — your plan shows the last 90 days of it. How far each series in particular reaches is written on its own chart; not every one of them goes back that far. The shape in the blurred area is decoration, not data: the figures are not in this page at all. Plus unlocks the complete series.

Lowest recorded price: $2.49 on Mar 16, 2023.

How crowded is this niche?

How full the niche around The Watchers is — measured on the tags it leads with, against every other combination on Steam.

±?? Indie + Action + Horror

Combinations under 15 games are left out to reduce the influence of small samples. The games below share those tags and are free to browse.

Unlock every combination See the radar first →

Similar games that found an audience

Games sharing at least 3 of this title's leading tags, with enough reviews to have gone somewhere. Ranked by how much they overlap, not by how big they are. − missing and + extra mark the tags each one does not share with The Watchers. Studio counts the titles that developer has released — the closest thing to production scale that public data allows. It is not a budget, and nobody publishes those.

Image Name Studio Shared Tag difference Price Reviews Positive Released Revenue (estimated)
The Headliners The Headliners KAFI 2 titles 5 − Indie + Funny $7.99 8,424 86% Thu, Jan 30, 2025 $2.7m
$1.4m – $3.6m
Ghost Exile Ghost Exile LostOneTeam first game 5 − Indie + Psychological Horror $14.99 3,660 89% Fri, Jan 07, 2022 $2.6m
$2.6m – $3.8m
The Blackout Club The Blackout Club Question 4 titles 5 − Online Co-Op + Simulation $29.99 2,186 78% Mon, Jul 29, 2019 $2.6m
$2.6m – $4.5m
Bureau of Contacts Bureau of Contacts MIROWIN 15 titles 5 − Indie + Adventure $7.99
$3.99
50%
576 82% Thu, Jun 20, 2024 $185k
$142k – $328k
Forsaken Frontiers Forsaken Frontiers made in fairyland first game 5 − Indie + Adventure $14.99 403 82% Sun, May 25, 2025 $253k
$112k – $279k

There are more like this. Your plan shows the 5 closest neighbours; Plus and Pro show up to 100 — enough to see the shape of a niche instead of a sample of it.

See the full neighbourhood Or start from the radar →