How much revenue did Destroy All Humans! make?

$2.4M–$6.3M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Destroy All Humans! sell?

Q: How many copies did Destroy All Humans! sell?

285k to 464k copies, based on its 12k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 285k–464k; $2.4M–$6.3M after Steam's cut $4.3M–$9.7M before Steam's cut; from 12k 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 Destroy All Humans! and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Destroy All Humans!'s, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 801k–974k

best case 1.9M (Skul: The Hero Slayer)

Games like Destroy All Humans!

A typical game among these

≈ 801k–974k copies

≈ $7.4M–$14.0M after Steam's cut

from ~22k 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 8 of the similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Villain Protagonist (4 of 8), so its genre is hard to place.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: Skul: The Hero Slayer at ≈ 1.4M–2.3M copies, ≈ $7.9M–$21.2M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 6k reviews in their first month; the range was 2k to 15k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Villain Protagonist (4 of 8) and Comedy (2 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Action Roguelike + Rogue-like, priced around $20.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2014 to 2024, 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 70 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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Skul: The Hero Slayer 2021	Est. copies ≈ 1.4M–2.3M 2.7x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $7.9M–$21.2M after Steam's cut $14.3M–$32.6M before Steam's cut	$19.99	58k reviews Very Positive	IndieAction
Grimm 2014	Est. copies ≈ 632k–1.0M SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue Free	Free	11k reviews Very Positive	IndieFree to Play
Garfield Kart 2015	Est. copies ≈ 691k–1.1M SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $948k–$2.5M after Steam's cut $1.7M–$3.9M before Steam's cut	$4.99	14k reviews Very Positive	Cult ClassicCombat Racing
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CARRION 2020	Est. copies ≈ 895k–1.5M 1.7x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $4.9M–$13.2M after Steam's cut $8.9M–$20.3M before Steam's cut	$19.99	36k reviews Very Positive	Villain ProtagonistPixel Graphics
Tyranny 2016	Est. copies ≈ 560k–909k SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $4.6M–$12.4M after Steam's cut $8.4M–$19.1M before Steam's cut	$29.99	13k reviews Very Positive	RPGChoices Matter
Maneater 2021	Est. copies ≈ 669k–1.1M SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $7.4M–$19.8M after Steam's cut $13.4M–$30.4M before Steam's cut	$39.99	27k reviews Very Positive	Open WorldDark Humor
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