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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.
Overview
Black Mesa is a 2020 Action game developed by Crowbar Collective and published by Crowbar Collective. On Steam it has gathered 132,752 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 model estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 6.0 million to 13.9 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
132,752
Positive
95%
Steam appid
362890
Engine
n/a
Sales estimate
vv1.06.0M to 13.9M
units (median: 10.0M)
≈ $68.2M to $159.2M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for Black Mesa at roughly 6.0 million to 13.9 million copies, with a median around 10.0 million, derived from its 132,752 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter model (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $113.7M 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
90d · low $11.81Over the last 90 days the price ranged from $11.81 to $19.99, averaging $18.77 across 3 discount windows, with a historical low of $11.81 on 2026-04-14.
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Where to buy
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Platforms
linuxwindows
Tags
FPSRemakeActionSci-fiFirst-PersonSingleplayerShooterAtmosphericClassicStory RichGreat SoundtrackAliensZombiesAdventureHorrorMultiplayerIndieModEarly AccessGore
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Black Mesa sold?
- indielist estimates Black Mesa has sold between 5,973,840 and 13,938,960 units (median 9,956,400), derived from its 132,752 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter vv1.0 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.
- When was Black Mesa released?
- Black Mesa was released in 2020.
- How many reviews does Black Mesa have on Steam?
- Black Mesa has 132,752 Steam reviews, of which 95% are positive.
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Black Mesa sold?
- indielist estimates Black Mesa has sold between 5,973,840 and 13,938,960 units (median 9,956,400), derived from its 132,752 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter vv1.0 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.
- When was Black Mesa released?
- Black Mesa was released in 2020.
- How many reviews does Black Mesa have on Steam?
- Black Mesa has 132,752 Steam reviews, of which 95% are positive.
Ecosystem
indielist positions Black Mesa within the Action segment so players can surface comparable titles by shared tags and genre rather than by storefront promotion. 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.