How much revenue did Contraband Police make?

$5.3M–$14.2M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Contraband Police sell?

Q: How many copies did Contraband Police sell?

638k to 1.0M copies, based on its 26k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 638k–1.0M; $5.3M–$14.2M after Steam's cut $9.6M–$21.8M before the cut; from 26k reviews (Overwhelmingly 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 Contraband Police out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Contraband Police's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 9.9M–10.4M

best case 27.2M (The Forest)

Games like Contraband Police

The middle of these games

≈ 9.9M–10.4M copies

≈ $110.3M–$211.0M after Steam's cut

from ~303k 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: The Forest at ≈ 20.7M–33.6M copies, ≈ $113.8M–$305.9M 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 165k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 17k to 200k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Open World (8 of 8) and Realistic (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Open World, priced around $25. The breakout hits carry Open World Survival Craft + Adventure; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2013 to 2025, and 2 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 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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