How much revenue did The Precinct make?

$1.9M–$5.1M 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?

228k to 371k copies, based on its 9k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 228k–371k; $1.9M–$5.1M after Steam's cut $3.4M–$7.8M before the cut; from 9k reviews (Very 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 The Precinct out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Precinct's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 25k–84k

best case 3.1M (L.A. Noire)

Games like The Precinct

The middle of these games

≈ 25k–84k copies

≈ $347k–$464k 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.

5 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: L.A. Noire at ≈ 2.3M–3.8M copies, ≈ $12.8M–$34.4M 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 105 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 14 to 13k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on 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.
The era: The games you compared span 2009 to 2024, and 1 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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