How many copies has Pit People® sold?

indielist estimates Pit People® has sold between 334,800 and 781,200 units (median 558,000), derived from its 7,440 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.

Who developed Pit People®?

Pit People® was developed by The Behemoth and published by The Behemoth.

Who published Pit People®?

Pit People® was published by The Behemoth, developed by The Behemoth. See The Behemoth's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.

When was Pit People® released?

Pit People® was released in 2018.

How many reviews does Pit People® have on Steam?

Pit People® has 7,440 Steam reviews, of which 93% are positive.

Is Pit People® worth playing?

Steam players rate Pit People® 93% positive across 7,440 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.

Pit People®

Mar 2, 2018 Action $19.99

Developer The Behemoth Publisher The Behemoth

Profile updated Jun 2026

Action-focused gameplay frames Pit People® as a 2018 release with a $19.99 initial price. It is listed as self-published by an unknown developer and has 7,414 Steam reviews, marked mixed with 0% positive in the provided data.

Pit People® is a 2018 Action game developed by The Behemoth and published by The Behemoth. On Steam it has gathered 7,440 player reviews, 93% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $20. The pairing of developer The Behemoth with publisher The Behemoth 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 335,000 to 781,000 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, Pit People® can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.

Reviews

7,440

Positive

93%

Steam appid

291860

Engine

Unknown

Players (snapshot)

Unavailable

Sales estimate

v1.0

335K to 781K

units (median: 558K)

≈ $3.8M to $8.9M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)

335K median 781K

+ How is this calculated?

7,440 reviews × NB(75) = 558,000 median units

Factor	Adjustment
base	+50
year_2018	+15
price_$20	0
positive_93%	+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 Pit People® at roughly 335,000 to 781,000 copies, with a median around 558,000, derived from its 7,440 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $6.4M 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

46 observed days · window low $5.99

Across 46 observed UTC days from 2026-06-08 to 2026-07-27, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $5.99 to $19.99. The tracked-window low was $5.99 on 2026-06-18.

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

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Platforms

windows

Frequently asked questions

How many copies has Pit People® sold?: indielist estimates Pit People® has sold between 334,800 and 781,200 units (median 558,000), derived from its 7,440 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
Who developed Pit People®?: Pit People® was developed by The Behemoth and published by The Behemoth.
Who published Pit People®?: Pit People® was published by The Behemoth, developed by The Behemoth. See The Behemoth's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
When was Pit People® released?: Pit People® was released in 2018.
How many reviews does Pit People® have on Steam?: Pit People® has 7,440 Steam reviews, of which 93% are positive.
Is Pit People® worth playing?: Steam players rate Pit People® 93% positive across 7,440 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 Pit People® can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Action titles such as ShellShock Live, Castle Crashers®, Overcooked! 2, BattleBlock Theater®, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, The Behemoth's other releases and The Behemoth's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Pit People® 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 Pit People® 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.