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How many copies did Human Madness sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 248–403
$545–$1k after Steam's cut $991–$2k before Steam's cut
from 10 reviews (Mostly Negative)

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

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 90–3k
best case 125.7M (PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS)
Games like Human Madness

A typical game among these

≈ 90–3k copies

≈ $73–$52k after Steam's cut

from ~13 reviews

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

3 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS at ≈ 95.8M–155.7M copies. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What their first month looked like
About half the games that made it here had over 2 reviews in their first month; the range was 1 to 76k.
Games with under about 100 reviews in month one almost never recover.
The genre you'd be entering
These games
The similar games share FPS (8 of 8) and Battle Royale (6 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Battle Royale + FPS. The breakout hits carry Multiplayer + PvP + Shooter; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped
The similar games span 2017 to 2025, and 2 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 43 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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