How much revenue did Chicken Police - Paint it RED! make?

$348k–$935k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Chicken Police - Paint it RED! sell?

Q: How many copies did Chicken Police - Paint it RED! sell?

63k to 103k copies, based on its 3k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 63k–103k; $348k–$935k after Steam's cut $632k–$1.4M before Steam's cut; from 3k reviews (Very Positive)

Copies are estimated from the public review count, adjusted for release year, and cross-checked against SteamSpy's own estimate.

Did the prediction match what actually happened?

We hid Chicken Police - Paint it RED! and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Chicken Police - Paint it RED!'s, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 109k–1.0M

best case 5.0M (Disco Elysium - The Final Cut)

Games like Chicken Police - Paint it RED!

A typical game among these

≈ 109k–1.0M copies

≈ $1.0M–$10.7M after Steam's cut

from ~4k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019's Steam releases earned $34k or more before Steam's cut, so plan for that or less.

All 8 of the similar games are hits.

Best case: Disco Elysium - The Final Cut at ≈ 3.8M–6.2M copies, ≈ $41.7M–$112.0M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Detective (8 of 8) and Point & Click (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Story Rich + Choices Matter, priced around $40.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2013 to 2022, and none of them shipped in the last two years.

How these numbers were worked out

A hit here: 1,000+ reviews, roughly $150k+ before Steam's cut (a standard indie benchmark).

Copies come from each game's reviews times a sales-per-review rate that falls with release age, from about 31 for the most recent game here to about 79 for the oldest, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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