How much revenue did Stay Human make?

$340–$915 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Stay Human sell?

Q: How many copies did Stay Human sell?

248 to 403 copies, based on its 10 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 248–403; $340–$915 after Steam's cut $619–$1k before Steam's cut; from 10 reviews (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 Stay Human and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Stay Human's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 137k–750k

best case 2.0M (Sid Meier's Civilization VII)

Games like Stay Human

A typical game among these

≈ 137k–750k copies

≈ $1.8M–$22.4M after Steam's cut

from ~6k 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: Sid Meier's Civilization VII at ≈ 1.5M–2.5M copies, ≈ $29.7M–$79.9M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 425 reviews in their first month; the range was 12 to 35k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Turn-Based Strategy (6 of 8) and Hex Grid (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Grand Strategy + Historical, priced around $70.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2018 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 38 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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