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Papers, Please
Lucas Pope
· Aug 8, 2013
Indie
Political
Simulation
Point & Click
Singleplayer
+15
S
Like Score · tier S
4,803
qualityScore
▼
469 · 7d
Price
$9.99
Reviews
73K
97% positive
Inbound MLT
3,471
peers liking this
Lifetime units
4.80M
est · medium conf
Status
Live
Overwhelmingly Positive
Live
· refreshed Jul 23
Store ↗
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Community ↗
01
Sales
$43.70M est
02
Like Score
4.8K · 3.5K
03
Reviews
73K
04
Overlap
20 peers
Lifetime gross spend
$43.70M
est
grossAtFullPrice $47.92M · promo blend
Net to developer
$28.14M
est
after Valve / VAT / refunds
Lifetime units
4,796,946
▼ 37.1%
0 / day median · launch
Launch window · 30d
$0
0% of LTD
0 units · $0.00 ASP
Confidence
medium
±18%
Based on 72,681 reviews collected over 13.0 years; balanced multi-language audience; non-Early-Access.
01
Revenue · monthly
Gross consumer spend USD
Gross
01
Like Score
qualityScore = Σ inbound · log₁₀(reviews+1) · positive% · rank-bonus
4,803
QUALITY SCORE
Tier
S
·
▼ 469
7d
D
C
B
A
S ●
Inbound
3,471
×
Σ log₁₀(R+1)
109
Avg pos%
94%
→ 4,803
Score history · 30d retention
2,354 (28d ago)
4,803 (now)
02
Biggest games linking to you
Steam puts Papers, Please in their “More Like This” · 3,471 inbound · top 10 by audience
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OMORI
79K reviews · 97% pos · OMOCAT, LLC · 2020
OneShot
58K reviews · 98% pos · Future Cat LLC · 2016
To the Moon
69K reviews · 95% pos · Freebird Games · 2012
Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number
69K reviews · 94% pos · Dennaton Games · 2015
Plague Inc: Evolved
58K reviews · 94% pos · Ndemic Creations · 2016
Lobotomy Corporation | Monster Management Simulation
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Chants of Sennaar
29K reviews · 98% pos · Rundisc · 2023
03
Papers, Please’s “More like this”
Outbound MLT · 30 games
#1
False Echo
0%
0
#2
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0%
0
#3
Endacopia
0%
0
#4
Beholder: Conductor
91%
3.9K
#5
Undertale
96%
298K
#6
Pronoun Palace
99%
1.1K
#7
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81%
848
#8
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93%
26K
Review score
9
/ 9
Overwhelmingly Positive
% positive
97.3%
cohort 71%
70,949 pos · 2,005 neg
Total reviews
73K
tracked
72,954 crawled
Velocity · all-time
17 / day
est
72,954 all-time
Steam-purchase rate
90.0%
flat
10.0% free / EA / key
01
Language distribution
Reviewer interface language · count, share of total, share positive
29 languages · top 12 shown
EN
English
52.3%
38,125
97%
RU
Russian
8.5%
6,199
97%
ES
Spanish
8.1%
5,936
99%
PT
Brazilian Portuguese
6.4%
4,701
99%
TR
Turkish
5.6%
4,106
97%
ZH
Simplified Chinese
3.7%
2,701
94%
DE
German
2.4%
1,746
96%
PL
Polish
2.4%
1,727
98%
KO
Korean
2.3%
1,700
95%
FR
French
1.7%
1,221
97%
ES
Latin American Spanish
1.5%
1,072
98%
IT
Italian
1.2%
858
98%
02
Reviews by playtime
Hours played at time of review · positive% per bucket
0-1h
3,453
82
%
positive
4.7% of reviews
refund window
1-10h
43,603
97
%
positive
59.8% of reviews
10-100h
25,515
99
%
positive
35.0% of reviews
100h+
383
100
%
positive
0.5% of reviews
03
Monthly timeline
Reviews per month · positive vs negative stacked · since launch
Positive 70,949
Negative 2,005
1.8k
1.3k
887
443
0
14·08
16·02
17·08
19·02
20·08
22·02
23·08
25·02
26·07
04
Breakdowns
Reviews segmented · count, % of total, % positive
72,954 reviews
Free product
1,101
/ 72,954
1.5% of total
98% positive
Early access
0
/ 72,954
0.0% of total
— no data
Key activation
6,165
/ 72,954
8.5% of total
96% positive
Steam Deck
157
/ 72,954
0.2% of total
88% positive
Steam purchase
65,688
/ 72,954
90.0% of total
97% positive
Recommended
70,949
/ 72,954
97.3% of total
— votedUp
Not recommended
2,005
/ 72,954
2.7% of total
— votedDown
Reviews crawled
72,954
/ 72,954
100.0% of total
97% positive
Reviewers tracked
72,936
indexed
20 peers with shared reviewers
Strongest peer
Portal 2
10.5%
7,630 shared reviewers
Net-new audience
94%
est
68,560 reviewers no peer shares
Avg overlap
5.9%
3 clusters
across 20 top peers
01
Audience overlap · top peers
Of this game’s reviewers, % who also reviewed each peer
Sort:
% overlap
shared
sentiment
% overlap ▼
Game
Overlap
Shared
Sentiment
Portal 2
7.6K shared · 99% pos
10.5%
7,630
99%
Undertale
5.9K shared · 94% pos
8.2%
5,946
94%
Portal
5.3K shared · 98% pos
7.3%
5,293
98%
Among Us
5.0K shared · 88% pos
6.8%
4,995
88%
PAYDAY 2
4.9K shared · 89% pos
6.8%
4,926
89%
Hollow Knight
4.8K shared · 95% pos
6.5%
4,777
95%
Half-Life 2
4.1K shared · 97% pos
5.7%
4,146
97%
The Forest
4.0K shared · 94% pos
5.5%
4,004
94%
The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth
3.9K shared · 95% pos
5.4%
3,945
95%
Hotline Miami
3.9K shared · 96% pos
5.4%
3,928
96%
Lethal Company
3.9K shared · 96% pos
5.4%
3,908
96%
Subnautica
3.8K shared · 97% pos
5.2%
3,811
97%
Stardew Valley
3.8K shared · 97% pos
5.2%
3,766
97%
Unturned
3.7K shared · 85% pos
5.1%
3,689
85%
Hades
3.6K shared · 96% pos
4.9%
3,610
96%
Cuphead
3.6K shared · 97% pos
4.9%
3,572
97%
Left 4 Dead 2
3.5K shared · 97% pos
4.8%
3,472
97%
Fallout: New Vegas
3.5K shared · 95% pos
4.7%
3,458
95%
Project Zomboid
3.4K shared · 94% pos
4.7%
3,431
94%
Cyberpunk 2077
3.4K shared · 91% pos
4.7%
3,413
91%
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