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How many copies did ESC (Electronics Security Company) sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 99–161
$272–$732 after Steam's cut $495–$1k before the cut
from 4 reviews (4 user reviews)
Thin evidence: 4 reviews. That range swings on one or two people, so read it as a hint, not a measurement.

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

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We left ESC (Electronics Security Company) out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including ESC (Electronics Security Company)'s, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 33k–37k
best case 745k (Police Simulator: Patrol Officers)
Games like ESC (Electronics Security Company)

The middle of these games

≈ 33k–37k copies

≈ $100k–$323k after Steam's cut

from ~1k reviews

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

7 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Police Simulator: Patrol Officers at ≈ 568k–922k copies, ≈ $4.7M–$12.6M 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 513 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 215 to 10k.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Exploration (5 of 8) and Immersive Sim (4 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Action-Adventure + First-Person, priced around $50. The breakout hits carry Simulation; a typical game here doesn't.
The era
Only 3 of your 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. That says more about your picks than about the market, so add newer similar games to read the timing.
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 of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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