Black Mesa

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Black Mesa

Short description

Relive Half-Life.

Developer
Crowbar Collective
Publisher
Crowbar Collective
Release
Fri, Mar 06, 2020
Price
$19.99
Reviews
135,171
Positive
95%
Followers
263,363
Owners (estimated)
2M – 5M
Concurrent players
907
Genres
Action, Adventure, Indie
Features
Multi-player, PvP, Online PvP, Cross-Platform Multiplayer, Steam Trading Cards, Captions available, Steam Workshop, Steam Input API Support, Partial Controller Support, Includes level editor, Includes Source SDK, Remote Play on Phone, Remote Play on Tablet
Tags
FPS Remake Action Sci-fi First-Person Singleplayer Shooter Atmospheric Classic Story Rich Great Soundtrack Aliens Zombies Adventure Horror Multiplayer Indie Mod Early Access Gore
Revenue (estimated, gross)~$89.9msomewhere between $48.6m and $89.9m · roughly 2.7M–5M copies

Review count and SteamSpy's owner range agree well enough to narrow the estimate down to this band. Multiplied by $17.97, the average price these copies actually sold for — weighted from the price history rather than taken from the $19.99 launch price. That is 10% below list price on average. Before Steam's cut, VAT and refunds. How these numbers are calculated.

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History

88 data points since Aug 6, 2026. Gaps mean nothing changed — the value carries forward.

Revenue (est.) ~$89.1m → ~$89.9m
See data from May 2015 with a Plus account
Reviews 134,075 → 135,171
Followers 262,838 → 263,363
Concurrent players 907 → 907
Price $19.99 → $19.99
Positive reviews 95.0% → 95.0%

The revenue curve is an estimate, not a measurement. It is the only calculated series here: each interval takes the review growth of that period, multiplies it by the sales-per-review factor and by the price actually charged at the time, and adds the result to the running total. That is why it climbs more slowly through discount periods than the review curve next to it. The last point is the same figure quoted above — gross, before Steam's cut, VAT and refunds. How these numbers are calculated.

The blurred area is the rest of the history. 275 further data points reach back to May 1, 2015 — your plan shows the last 90 days of it. How far each series in particular reaches is written on its own chart; not every one of them goes back that far. The shape in the blurred area is decoration, not data: the figures are not in this page at all. Plus unlocks the complete series.

Lowest recorded price: $1.99 on May 12, 2025.

How crowded is this niche?

How full the niche around Black Mesa is — measured on the tags it leads with, against every other combination on Steam.

±?? FPS + Remake + Action

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Similar games that found an audience

Games sharing at least 3 of this title's leading tags, with enough reviews to have gone somewhere. Ranked by how much they overlap, not by how big they are. − missing and + extra mark the tags each one does not share with Black Mesa. Studio counts the titles that developer has released — the closest thing to production scale that public data allows. It is not a budget, and nobody publishes those.

Image Name Studio Shared Tag difference Price Reviews Positive Released Revenue (estimated)
Chaser Chaser Cauldron first game 5 − Remake + Classic $4.99
$1.24
75%
best price ever
1,102 72% Fri, Jul 16, 2010 $218k
$97k – $2.2m
Alpha Prime Alpha Prime Black Element first game 5 − Remake + Shooter $4.99 846 61% Wed, Nov 07, 2007 $167k
$74k – $2.2m
Half-Life 2 Half-Life 2 Valve 34 titles 4 − Remake − First-Person + Classic + Story Rich $9.99 204,160 98% Tue, Nov 16, 2004 $88.9m
$88.9m – $145m
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (2009) Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (2009) Infinity Ward 17 titles 4 − Remake − Sci-fi + Multiplayer + Shooter $19.99 35,930 94% Wed, Nov 11, 2009 $30.6m
$13.6m – $189m
DOOM: The Dark Ages DOOM: The Dark Ages id Software 24 titles 4 − Remake − First-Person + Demons + Dark Fantasy $49.99 32,755 88% Wed, May 14, 2025 $46.4m
$30.4m – $46.4m

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