How much revenue did Karma City Police make?

$13k–$35k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Karma City Police sell?

Q: How many copies did Karma City Police sell?

4k to 6k copies, based on its 160 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 4k–6k; $13k–$35k after Steam's cut $24k–$54k before Steam's cut; from 160 reviews (Mostly 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 Karma City Police and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Karma City Police's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 25k–806k

best case 3.1M (Yakuza 0)

Games like Karma City Police

A typical game among these

≈ 25k–806k copies

≈ $50k–$3.2M after Steam's cut

from ~5k reviews

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

5 of the 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Story Rich (4 of 8), so its genre is hard to place.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: Yakuza 0 at ≈ 2.4M–3.8M copies.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 1k reviews in their first month; the range was 73 to 5k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Story Rich (4 of 8) and Beat 'em up (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Story Rich + Beat 'em up.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2018 to 2025, and 3 of the 8 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 38 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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