How much revenue did HUMANITY make?

$105k–$283k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did HUMANITY sell?

Q: How many copies did HUMANITY sell?

13k to 21k copies, based on its 514 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 13k–21k; $105k–$283k after Steam's cut $191k–$435k before Steam's cut; from 514 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 HUMANITY and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including HUMANITY's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 5.3M–16.5M

best case 38.8M (Portal 2)

Games like HUMANITY

A typical game among these

≈ 5.3M–16.5M copies

≈ $40.7M–$95.8M after Steam's cut

from ~199k 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: Portal 2 at ≈ 29.5M–48.0M copies, ≈ $81.1M–$218.1M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 21 reviews in their first month; the range was 1 to 56.

Games with under about 100 reviews in month one almost never recover.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Puzzle (7 of 8) and Puzzle-Platformer (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Platformer + Puzzle, priced around $10.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2007 to 2022, and none of them 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
Portal 2007	Est. copies ≈ 12.6M–20.5M SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue $34.6M–$93.1M after Steam's cut $63.0M–$143.3M before Steam's cut	$9.99	199k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	PuzzlePuzzle-Platformer
I Love Finding MORE Pups 2022	Est. copies ≈ 74–121 too small to compare SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $244–$660 after Steam's cut $444–$1k before Steam's cut	$11.99	3 reviews 3 user reviews	CasualHidden Object
Pets at Work 2022	Est. copies ≈ 4k–6k too small to compare SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $3k–$8k after Steam's cut $6k–$13k before Steam's cut	$2.99	150 reviews Very Positive	Local Co-OpPuzzle-Platformer
Human Fall Flat 2016	Est. copies ≈ 9.5M–15.4M SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue $52.0M–$139.7M after Steam's cut $94.5M–$214.9M before Steam's cut	$19.99	227k reviews Very Positive	Co-opFunny
LIMBO 2011	Est. copies ≈ 3.9M–6.4M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $13.5M–$36.3M after Steam's cut $24.5M–$55.8M before Steam's cut	$12.49	62k reviews Very Positive	Puzzle-PlatformerIndie
DOG'S DONUTS 2021	Est. copies ≈ 893–1k too small to compare SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $489–$1k after Steam's cut $889–$2k before Steam's cut	$1.99	36 reviews Positive	PhysicsLemmings
Little Nightmares 2017	Est. copies ≈ 4.0M–6.5M SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $22.1M–$59.3M after Steam's cut $40.1M–$91.3M before Steam's cut	$19.99	117k reviews Very Positive	HorrorAtmospheric
Portal 2 2011	Est. copies ≈ 29.5M–48.0M 2.3x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $81.1M–$218.1M after Steam's cut $147.5M–$335.6M before Steam's cut	$9.99	467k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Platformer Puzzle