How much revenue did Police Simulator: Patrol Duty make?

Police Simulator: Patrol Duty is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How many copies did Police Simulator: Patrol Duty sell?

Q: How many copies did Police Simulator: Patrol Duty sell?

118k to 192k copies, based on its 4k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 118k–192k; from 4k reviews (Mixed)

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 Police Simulator: Patrol Duty out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Police Simulator: Patrol Duty's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 39k–154k

best case 863k (Maneater)

Games like Police Simulator: Patrol Duty

The middle of these games

≈ 39k–154k copies

≈ $389k–$1.2M after Steam's cut

from ~2k reviews

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

6 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Maneater at ≈ 658k–1.1M copies, ≈ $7.2M–$19.4M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 570 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 15 to 2k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Simulation (6 of 8) and Open World (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Open World + Dark Humor, priced around $40.
The era: The games you compared span 2014 to 2023, 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 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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Ruinarch 2023	Est. copies ≈ 35k–57k SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue $242k–$651k after Steam's cut $440k–$1.0M before the cut	$24.99	1k reviews Mixed	God GameVillain Protagonist
Lucius II 2015	Est. copies ≈ 114k–185k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $627k–$1.7M after Steam's cut $1.1M–$2.6M before the cut	$19.99	2k reviews Mixed	HorrorGore
Maneater 2021	Est. copies ≈ 658k–1.1M 15x vs typical SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $7.2M–$19.4M after Steam's cut $13.2M–$29.9M before the cut	$39.99	27k reviews Very Positive	Open WorldDark Humor
Enforcer: Police Crime Action 2014	Est. copies ≈ 129k–209k SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $707k–$1.9M after Steam's cut $1.3M–$2.9M before the cut	$19.99	2k reviews Mixed	SimulationAction
Autobahn Police Simulator 2015	Est. copies ≈ 108k–176k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $298k–$801k after Steam's cut $542k–$1.2M before the cut	$9.99	2k reviews Mostly Negative	SimulationDriving
Autobahn Police Simulator 2 2017	Est. copies ≈ 46k–75k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $255k–$686k after Steam's cut $464k–$1.1M before the cut	$19.99	1k reviews Mixed	SimulationAutomobile Sim
Unferat 2020	Est. copies ≈ 4k–7k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $7k–$18k after Steam's cut $12k–$28k before the cut	$5.99	167 reviews Very Positive	SimulationRPG
Autobahn Police Simulator 3 2022	Est. copies ≈ 14k–23k SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue $118k–$317k after Steam's cut $215k–$488k before the cut	$29.99	577 reviews Mixed	ActionSimulation