How much revenue did This Is the Police make?

$1.9M–$5.2M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did This Is the Police sell?

Q: How many copies did This Is the Police sell?

467k to 759k copies, based on its 11k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 467k–759k; $1.9M–$5.2M after Steam's cut $3.5M–$8.0M before the cut; from 11k reviews (Very Positive)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

Does this actually work?

We left This Is the Police out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including This Is the Police's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 3.0M–5.1M

best case 10.8M (Stellaris)

Games like This Is the Police

The middle of these games

≈ 3.0M–5.1M copies

≈ $47.0M–$51.8M after Steam's cut

from ~95k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

All 8 of your similar games are hits.

Best case: Stellaris at ≈ 8.2M–13.3M copies, ≈ $112.7M–$303.1M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 19k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 19k to 44k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Simulation (6 of 8) and Management (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Space + Grand Strategy, priced around $50. The breakout hits carry Space + Sci-fi + 4X; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2014 to 2024, and 1 of your 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 70 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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