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This indie puzzle game, released in 2019, features a unique mechanic where players can alter the rules of the game itself. It has garnered 20,444 positive reviews on Steam.
Overview
Baba Is You is a 2019 Indie game developed by Hempuli Oy and published by Hempuli Oy. On Steam it has gathered 20,582 player reviews, 98% of them positive, which counts as a overwhelmingly positive reception among indie titles in the Indie category. The game is available on linux, mac, windows, and launched at $15. The pairing of developer Hempuli Oy with publisher Hempuli Oy is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Indie projects reach the market. indielist's white-box model estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 926,000 to 2.2 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, Baba Is You can be compared against similar Indie titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
20,582
Positive
98%
Steam appid
736260
Engine
n/a
Sales estimate
vv1.0926K to 2.2M
units (median: 1.5M)
≈ $7.9M to $18.5M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for Baba Is You at roughly 926,000 to 2.2 million copies, with a median around 1.5 million, derived from its 20,582 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter model (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $13.2M 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
90d · low $8.93Over the last 90 days the price ranged from $8.93 to $14.99, averaging $13.93 across 3 discount windows, with a historical low of $8.93 on 2026-03-16.
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Where to buy
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Platforms
linuxmacwindows
Tags
PuzzleIndieDifficultSingleplayerLogicPixel GraphicsCuteProgramming2DSokobanGreat SoundtrackMinimalistCasualLevel EditorTop-DownRetroStrategyAtmosphericSurrealFunny
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Baba Is You sold?
- indielist estimates Baba Is You has sold between 926,190 and 2,161,110 units (median 1,543,650), derived from its 20,582 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter vv1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Baba Is You?
- Baba Is You was developed by Hempuli Oy and published by Hempuli Oy.
- When was Baba Is You released?
- Baba Is You was released in 2019.
- How many reviews does Baba Is You have on Steam?
- Baba Is You has 20,582 Steam reviews, of which 98% are positive.
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Baba Is You sold?
- indielist estimates Baba Is You has sold between 926,190 and 2,161,110 units (median 1,543,650), derived from its 20,582 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter vv1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Baba Is You?
- Baba Is You was developed by Hempuli Oy and published by Hempuli Oy.
- When was Baba Is You released?
- Baba Is You was released in 2019.
- How many reviews does Baba Is You have on Steam?
- Baba Is You has 20,582 Steam reviews, of which 98% are positive.
Ecosystem
indielist positions Baba Is You within the Indie segment so players can surface comparable titles by shared tags and genre rather than by storefront promotion. On the developer side, Hempuli Oy's other releases and Hempuli Oy's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Baba Is You 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 Baba Is You page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Indie 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.