How much revenue did Crime Simulator: Playgrounds make?

$29k–$79k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Crime Simulator: Playgrounds sell?

Q: How many copies did Crime Simulator: Playgrounds sell?

54k to 87k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 54k–87k; $29k–$79k after Steam's cut $53k–$121k before the cut; from 2k 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 Crime Simulator: Playgrounds out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Crime Simulator: Playgrounds's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 185k–2.4M

best case 55.9M (PAYDAY 2)

Games like Crime Simulator: Playgrounds

The middle of these games

≈ 185k–2.4M copies

≈ $7.0M–$18.9M after Steam's cut

from ~37k 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: PAYDAY 2 at ≈ 42.6M–69.2M copies, ≈ $117.1M–$314.7M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 5k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 2k to 39k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Crime (7 of 8) and Heist (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Co-op + FPS, priced around $10.
The era: The games you compared span 2011 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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PAYDAY 3 2023	Est. copies ≈ 1.6M–2.6M 1.8x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $13.4M–$35.9M after Steam's cut $24.3M–$55.2M before the cut	$29.99	65k reviews Mixed	HeistCo-op