How much revenue did The Precinct make?

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

How many copies did The Precinct sell?

Q: How many copies did The Precinct sell?

232k to 377k copies, based on its 9k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 232k–377k; $1.9M–$5.2M after Steam's cut $3.5M–$7.9M before Steam's cut; from 9k 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 The Precinct and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Precinct's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 26k–85k

best case 3.1M (L.A. Noire)

Games like The Precinct

A typical game among these

≈ 26k–85k copies

≈ $348k–$466k after Steam's cut

from ~1k 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.

Best case: L.A. Noire at ≈ 2.3M–3.8M copies, ≈ $12.8M–$34.5M 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 104 reviews in their first month; the range was 14 to 12k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Simulation (5 of 8) and Crime (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Crime + Open World, priced around $22. The breakout hits carry Open World + Adventure + Crime; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2009 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 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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