How many copies has Baba Is You sold?

indielist estimates Baba Is You has sold between 935,370 and 2,182,530 units (median 1,558,950), derived from its 20,786 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 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.

Who published Baba Is You?

Baba Is You was published by Hempuli Oy, developed by Hempuli Oy. See Hempuli Oy's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.

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 20,786 Steam reviews, of which 98% are positive.

Is Baba Is You worth playing?

Steam players rate Baba Is You 98% positive across 20,786 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.

Baba Is You

Mar 13, 2019 Indie $14.99

Developer Hempuli Oy Publisher Hempuli Oy

Profile updated May 2026

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.

Baba Is You is a 2019 Indie game developed by Hempuli Oy and published by Hempuli Oy. On Steam it has gathered 20,786 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 method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 935,000 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

20,786

Positive

98%

Steam appid

736260

Engine

Unknown

Players (snapshot)

311

Historical snapshot · 2026-05-24 19:10 UTC

Sales estimate

v1.0

935K to 2.2M

units (median: 1.6M)

≈ $8.0M to $18.7M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)

935K median 2.2M

+ How is this calculated?

20,786 reviews × NB(75) = 1,558,950 median units

Factor	Adjustment
base	+50
year_2019	+15
price_$15	0
positive_98%	+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 Baba Is You at roughly 935,000 to 2.2 million copies, with a median around 1.6 million, derived from its 20,786 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $13.3M 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

53 observed days · window low $10.49

Across 53 observed UTC days from 2026-05-31 to 2026-07-22, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $10.49 to $14.99. The tracked-window low was $10.49 on 2026-05-31.

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 Baba Is You sold?: indielist estimates Baba Is You has sold between 935,370 and 2,182,530 units (median 1,558,950), derived from its 20,786 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 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.
Who published Baba Is You?: Baba Is You was published by Hempuli Oy, developed by Hempuli Oy. See Hempuli Oy's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
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 20,786 Steam reviews, of which 98% are positive.
Is Baba Is You worth playing?: Steam players rate Baba Is You 98% positive across 20,786 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 Baba Is You can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Indie titles such as World of Goo, Mini Metro, FEZ, Papers, Please, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. 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.

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