How much revenue did HUMANKIND™ make?

$9.8M–$26.4M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did HUMANKIND™ sell?

Q: How many copies did HUMANKIND™ sell?

715k to 1.2M copies, based on its 29k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 715k–1.2M; $9.8M–$26.4M after Steam's cut $17.9M–$40.7M before Steam's cut; from 29k reviews (Mixed)

Copies are estimated from the public review count, adjusted for release year, and cross-checked against SteamSpy's own estimate.

Did the prediction match what actually happened?

We hid HUMANKIND™ and predicted how it would do from its 6 similar games. Every figure here, including HUMANKIND™'s, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.5M–13.8M

best case 20.7M (Sid Meier’s Civilization® VI)

Games like HUMANKIND™

A typical game among these

≈ 1.5M–13.8M copies

≈ $54.8M–$202.8M after Steam's cut

from ~57k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019's Steam releases earned $34k or more before Steam's cut, so plan for that or less.

All 6 of the similar games are hits.

Best case: Sid Meier’s Civilization® VI at ≈ 15.8M–25.7M copies, ≈ $260.5M–$700.4M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Grand Strategy (5 of 6) and Turn-Based Strategy (5 of 6).
The winners: Winners here lead with Turn-Based Strategy + Historical, priced around $60.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2007 to 2025, and 1 of the 6 shipped in the last two years.

How these numbers were worked out

A hit here: 1,000+ reviews, roughly $150k+ before Steam's cut (a standard indie benchmark).

Copies come from each game's reviews times a sales-per-review rate that falls with release age, from about 31 for the most recent game here to about 79 for the oldest, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

Similar games

Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
Sid Meier's Civilization VII 2025	Est. copies ≈ 1.5M–2.5M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $29.7M–$79.9M after Steam's cut $54.1M–$123.0M before Steam's cut	$69.99	62k reviews Mixed	Grand StrategyHistorical
Sid Meier's Civilization® V 2010	Est. copies ≈ 13.3M–21.7M 3.7x vs typical SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue $110.0M–$295.6M after Steam's cut $199.9M–$454.8M before Steam's cut	$29.99	211k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Turn-Based StrategyStrategy
ENDLESS Space™ 2 2017	Est. copies ≈ 795k–1.3M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $8.7M–$23.5M after Steam's cut $15.9M–$36.2M before Steam's cut	$39.99	23k reviews Very Positive	StrategySpace
Sid Meier’s Civilization® VI 2016	Est. copies ≈ 15.8M–25.7M 6.6x vs typical SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue $260.5M–$700.4M after Steam's cut $473.7M–$1077.6M before Steam's cut	$59.99	380k reviews Very Positive	StrategyTurn-Based Strategy
Total War: WARHAMMER 2016	Est. copies ≈ 2.2M–3.5M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $35.9M–$96.6M after Steam's cut $65.3M–$148.6M before Steam's cut	$59.99	52k reviews Mostly Positive	StrategyFantasy
Rome: Total War™ - Collection 2007	Est. copies ≈ 1.1M–1.7M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue Free	Free	17k reviews Very Positive	StrategyHistorical