How many copies has Black Mesa sold?

indielist estimates Black Mesa has sold between 6,026,265 and 14,061,285 units (median 10,043,775), derived from its 133,917 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.

Who published Black Mesa?

Black Mesa was published by Crowbar Collective, developed by Crowbar Collective. See Crowbar Collective's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.

When was Black Mesa released?

Black Mesa was released in 2020.

How many reviews does Black Mesa have on Steam?

Black Mesa has 133,917 Steam reviews, of which 95% are positive.

Is Black Mesa worth playing?

Steam players rate Black Mesa 95% positive across 133,917 reviews. indielist doesn't score games editorially; it surfaces public review sentiment and a white-box sales estimate so you can judge reception and reach yourself.

Black Mesa

Mar 6, 2020 Action $19.99

Developer Crowbar Collective Publisher Crowbar Collective

Profile updated May 2026

Black Mesa is an action game released in 2020. This indie title has garnered 132,428 reviews on Steam. It is tagged as Action and Adventure.

Black Mesa is a 2020 Action game developed by Crowbar Collective and published by Crowbar Collective. On Steam it has gathered 133,917 player reviews, 95% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on linux, windows, and launched at $20. The pairing of developer Crowbar Collective with publisher Crowbar Collective is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Action projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 6.0 million to 14.1 million units, with the full Boxleiter factor breakdown shown on this page rather than a single black-box figure. Within indielist's catalog of indie games mapped to their studios, publishers, and funding, Black Mesa can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.

Reviews

133,917

Positive

95%

Steam appid

362890

Engine

Unknown

Players (snapshot)

720

Fresh snapshot · 2026-07-24 16:30 UTC · 24h peak 803

Sales estimate

v1.0

6.0M to 14.1M

units (median: 10.0M)

≈ $68.8M to $160.6M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)

6.0M median 14.1M

+ How is this calculated?

133,917 reviews × NB(75) = 10,043,775 median units

Factor	Adjustment
base	+50
year_2020	+15
price_$20	0
positive_95%	+10
final NB	75

Heuristic display range: median × [0.6, 1.4]. Boundary protection: NB ∈ [15, 150].

Methodology & limitations

Sales estimates use an additive Boxleiter-derived heuristic against public Steam review counts. They are not authoritative sales data, and the fixed display range is not a statistically validated confidence interval. Actual results may fall outside it, especially for deeply discounted or bundle-heavy titles. Algorithm version v1.0. Read the exact method and validation status.

indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for Black Mesa at roughly 6.0 million to 14.1 million copies, with a median around 10.0 million, derived from its 133,917 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $114.7M in net revenue after Steam's 30% cut, regional pricing, and refunds. Unlike black-box trackers, the full calculation is shown on this page: a base review-to-sales multiplier is adjusted for release year, launch price, review sentiment, studio size, and genre, and every adjustment is listed so developers, publishers, and investors can audit exactly how the figure was reached. The range itself reflects genuine uncertainty — review-to-sales ratios vary widely between games — so indielist publishes a low, median, and high band rather than a false-precision single number, and treats free-to-play, heavily discounted, and bundle-distributed titles as having wider error margins still.

Price history

54 observed days · window low $3.99

Across 54 observed UTC days from 2026-05-31 to 2026-07-24, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $3.99 to $19.99. The tracked-window low was $3.99 on 2026-06-26.

Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.

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Platforms

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Frequently asked questions

How many copies has Black Mesa sold?: indielist estimates Black Mesa has sold between 6,026,265 and 14,061,285 units (median 10,043,775), derived from its 133,917 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
Who developed Black Mesa?: Black Mesa was developed by Crowbar Collective and published by Crowbar Collective.
Who published Black Mesa?: Black Mesa was published by Crowbar Collective, developed by Crowbar Collective. See Crowbar Collective's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
When was Black Mesa released?: Black Mesa was released in 2020.
How many reviews does Black Mesa have on Steam?: Black Mesa has 133,917 Steam reviews, of which 95% are positive.
Is Black Mesa worth playing?: Steam players rate Black Mesa 95% positive across 133,917 reviews. indielist doesn't score games editorially; it surfaces public review sentiment and a white-box sales estimate so you can judge reception and reach yourself.

Players looking for games like Black Mesa can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Action titles such as Outlast 2, BONEWORKS, Serious Sam 3: BFE, Serious Sam 4, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Crowbar Collective's other releases and Crowbar Collective's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Black Mesa sits among a studio's body of work and how its publisher's portfolio performs. Because indielist maps studios, publishers, games, and funding into one connected graph, the same Black Mesa page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Action game, developers studying how comparable projects were positioned and what they sold, and investors tracing which teams and labels are active in the space. A machine-readable markdown mirror of this page is published at the same path with a .md suffix for AI assistants, and its review, price, and sales-estimate figures are refreshed on a schedule rather than frozen at launch.

Matched from shared Steam tags and primary genre. Review count breaks ties; it is not a personal recommendation score.