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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.
Overview
Pit People® is a 2018 Action game developed by The Behemoth and published by The Behemoth. On Steam it has gathered 8,133 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 366,000 to 854,000 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
8,133
Positive
93%
Steam appid
291860
Engine
Unknown
Sales estimate
vv1.0366K to 854K
units (median: 610K)
≈ $4.2M to $9.8M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2018 | +15 |
| price_$20 | 0 |
| positive_93% | +10 |
| final NB | 75 |
Confidence range: median × [0.6, 1.4]. Boundary protection: NB ∈ [15, 150].
Methodology & limitations
Sales estimates use a multi-factor Boxleiter method against public Steam review counts.
They are not authoritative sales data. Actual sales can deviate by
±50% in either direction. Free-to-play games, deeply discounted titles, and games
with heavy bundle distribution have larger error margins. Algorithm version
v1.0.
indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for Pit People® at roughly 366,000 to 854,000 copies, with a median around 610,000, derived from its 8,133 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $7.0M 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 $10.65Over the last 90 days the price ranged from $10.65 to $19.99, averaging $18.50 across 3 discount windows, with a historical low of $10.65 on 2026-05-06.
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Where to buy
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- Humble Store
- GOG.com
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Platforms
windows
Tags
Turn-Based CombatOnline Co-Op2DFunnyStrategyMemesComedyCo-opIndieTurn-BasedLocal Co-OpMultiplayerSingleplayerCasualRPGActionTurn-Based TacticsTurn-Based StrategyOpen WorldHex Grid
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Pit People® sold?
- indielist estimates Pit People® has sold between 365,985 and 853,965 units (median 609,975), derived from its 8,133 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter vv1.0 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.
- When was Pit People® released?
- Pit People® was released in 2018.
- How many reviews does Pit People® have on Steam?
- Pit People® has 8,133 Steam reviews, of which 93% are positive.
Ecosystem
indielist positions Pit People® within the Action segment so players can surface comparable titles by shared tags and genre rather than by storefront promotion. 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.