How much revenue did Regular Human Workshop make?

$85k–$230k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Regular Human Workshop sell?

Q: How many copies did Regular Human Workshop sell?

31k to 50k copies, based on its 1k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 31k–50k; $85k–$230k after Steam's cut $155k–$353k before Steam's cut; from 1k reviews (Very Positive)

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 Regular Human Workshop and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Regular Human Workshop's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 19k–272k

best case 12.1M (People Playground)

Games like Regular Human Workshop

A typical game among these

≈ 19k–272k copies

≈ $89k–$2.8M after Steam's cut

from ~1k reviews

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

5 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: People Playground at ≈ 9.2M–15.0M copies, ≈ $25.4M–$68.2M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 243 reviews in their first month; the range was 21 to 19k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Sandbox (8 of 8) and Choose Your Own Adventure (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Sandbox + Gore, priced around $10.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2019 to 2025, and 1 of the 8 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 36 for the oldest, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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