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?

468k to 760k copies, based on its 11k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 468k–760k; $1.9M–$5.2M after Steam's cut $3.5M–$8.0M before Steam's cut; from 11k 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 This Is the Police and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including This Is the Police's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 3.1M–5.2M

best case 10.7M (Stellaris)

Games like This Is the Police

A typical game among these

≈ 3.1M–5.2M copies

≈ $47.5M–$51.9M after Steam's cut

from ~96k 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: Stellaris at ≈ 8.2M–13.3M copies, ≈ $112.6M–$302.6M after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What their first month looked like

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

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share 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.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2014 to 2024, and 1 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 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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