How much revenue did Karma City Police make?

$13k–$34k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Karma City Police sell?

Q: How many copies did Karma City Police sell?

4k to 6k copies, based on its 156 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 4k–6k; $13k–$34k after Steam's cut $23k–$53k before the cut; from 156 reviews (Mostly 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 Karma City Police out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Karma City Police's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 25k–804k

best case 3.1M (Yakuza 0)

Games like Karma City Police

The middle of these games

≈ 25k–804k copies

≈ $50k–$3.2M after Steam's cut

from ~5k reviews

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

5 of your 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Story Rich (4 of 8), so the genre you lead with is still undecided.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: Yakuza 0 at ≈ 2.4M–3.8M copies.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 1k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 73 to 5k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Story Rich (4 of 8) and Beat 'em up (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Story Rich + Beat 'em up.
The era: The games you compared span 2018 to 2025, and 3 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 38 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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