How much revenue did Police Simulator: Patrol Officers make?

$4.7M–$12.6M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Police Simulator: Patrol Officers sell?

Q: How many copies did Police Simulator: Patrol Officers sell?

568k to 922k copies, based on its 23k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 568k–922k; $4.7M–$12.6M after Steam's cut $8.5M–$19.4M before the cut; from 23k 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 Police Simulator: Patrol Officers out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Police Simulator: Patrol Officers's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 693k–1.5M

best case 10.2M (Schedule I)

Games like Police Simulator: Patrol Officers

The middle of these games

≈ 693k–1.5M copies

≈ $4.6M–$8.6M after Steam's cut

from ~19k 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: Schedule I at ≈ 7.8M–12.7M copies, ≈ $42.9M–$115.2M 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 13k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 4k to 153k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Crime (5 of 8) and Open World (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Simulation + Co-op, priced around $20. The breakout hits carry Co-op + Management + Multiplayer; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2002 to 2025, 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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