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Papers, Please
Lucas Pope
· Aug 8, 2013
Indie
Political
Simulation
Point & Click
Singleplayer
+15
S
Like Score · tier S
2,687
qualityScore
▲
161 · 7d
Price
$9.99
Reviews
72K
97% positive
Inbound MLT
1,968
peers liking this
Lifetime units
4.75M
est · medium conf
Status
Live
Overwhelmingly Positive
Live
· refreshed May 23
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Community ↗
01
Sales
$47.43M est
02
Like Score
2.7K · 2.0K
03
Reviews
72K
04
Overlap
20 peers
Lifetime gross spend
$47.43M
est
grossAtFullPrice $47.43M · promo blend
Net to developer
$30.54M
est
after Valve / VAT / refunds
Lifetime units
4,747,446
▼ 45.1%
0 / day median · launch
Launch window · 30d
$0
0% of LTD
0 units · $0.00 ASP
Confidence
medium
±18%
Based on 71,931 reviews collected over 12.8 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
2,687
QUALITY SCORE
Tier
S
·
▲ 161
7d
D
C
B
A
S ●
Inbound
1,968
×
Σ log₁₀(R+1)
102
Avg pos%
94%
→ 2,687
Score history · 30d retention
2,114 (25d ago)
2,687 (now)
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78K reviews · 97% pos · OMOCAT, LLC · 2020
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Plague Inc: Evolved
55K reviews · 94% pos · Ndemic Creations · 2016
Chants of Sennaar
27K reviews · 98% pos · Rundisc · 2023
There Is No Game: Wrong Dimension
23K reviews · 97% pos · Draw Me A Pixel · 2020
Baba Is You
20K reviews · 97% pos · Hempuli Oy · 2019
Machinarium
16K reviews · 95% pos · Amanita Design · 2009
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23K reviews · 91% pos · Alawar Stargaze (Warm Lamp Games) · 2016
03
Papers, Please’s “More like this”
Outbound MLT · 30 games
#1
IRON NEST: Heavy Turret Simulator
0%
0
#2
Phonopolis
93%
352
#3
No, I'm not a Human
92%
25K
#4
Neverway
0%
0
#5
PVKK: Planetenverteidigungskanonenkommandant
0%
0
#6
Ministry of Order
0%
0
#7
False Echo
0%
0
#8
Undertale
96%
291K
Review score
9
/ 9
Overwhelmingly Positive
% positive
97.3%
cohort 71%
69,989 pos · 1,969 neg
Total reviews
72K
tracked
71,958 crawled
Velocity · all-time
17 / day
est
71,958 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%
37,645
97%
RU
Russian
8.5%
6,102
98%
ES
Spanish
8.1%
5,824
99%
PT
Brazilian Portuguese
6.4%
4,636
99%
TR
Turkish
5.6%
4,022
97%
ZH
Simplified Chinese
3.7%
2,674
94%
DE
German
2.4%
1,735
96%
PL
Polish
2.4%
1,716
98%
KO
Korean
2.3%
1,681
95%
FR
French
1.7%
1,201
97%
ES
Latin American Spanish
1.5%
1,046
98%
IT
Italian
1.2%
847
98%
02
Reviews by playtime
Hours played at time of review · positive% per bucket
0-1h
3,407
82
%
positive
4.7% of reviews
refund window
1-10h
43,072
97
%
positive
59.9% of reviews
10-100h
25,098
99
%
positive
34.9% of reviews
100h+
381
100
%
positive
0.5% of reviews
03
Monthly timeline
Reviews per month · positive vs negative stacked · since launch
Positive 69,989
Negative 1,969
1.8k
1.3k
887
443
0
14·08
16·02
17·08
19·02
20·08
22·02
23·08
25·02
26·05
04
Breakdowns
Reviews segmented · count, % of total, % positive
71,958 reviews
Free product
1,095
/ 71,958
1.5% of total
98% positive
Early access
0
/ 71,958
0.0% of total
— no data
Key activation
6,093
/ 71,958
8.5% of total
96% positive
Steam Deck
152
/ 71,958
0.2% of total
88% positive
Steam purchase
64,770
/ 71,958
90.0% of total
97% positive
Recommended
69,989
/ 71,958
97.3% of total
— votedUp
Not recommended
1,969
/ 71,958
2.7% of total
— votedDown
Reviews crawled
71,958
/ 71,958
100.0% of total
97% positive
Reviewers tracked
71,818
indexed
20 peers with shared reviewers
Strongest peer
Portal
7.2%
5,155 shared reviewers
Net-new audience
95%
est
68,227 reviewers no peer shares
Avg overlap
5%
3 clusters
across 20 top peers
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Audience overlap · top peers
Of this game’s reviewers, % who also reviewed each peer
Sort:
% overlap
shared
sentiment
% overlap ▼
Game
Overlap
Shared
Sentiment
Portal
5.2K shared · 98% pos
7.2%
5,155
98%
PAYDAY 2
4.8K shared · 89% pos
6.7%
4,837
89%
Hollow Knight
4.6K shared · 95% pos
6.5%
4,643
95%
Hotline Miami
3.9K shared · 96% pos
5.4%
3,862
96%
Lethal Company
3.8K shared · 96% pos
5.3%
3,801
96%
Undertale
3.8K shared · 94% pos
5.3%
3,791
94%
Unturned
3.6K shared · 85% pos
5.1%
3,645
85%
Hades
3.5K shared · 97% pos
4.9%
3,523
97%
Stardew Valley
3.5K shared · 97% pos
4.8%
3,470
97%
Cuphead
3.5K shared · 97% pos
4.8%
3,464
97%
Fallout: New Vegas
3.4K shared · 95% pos
4.7%
3,381
95%
Project Zomboid
3.3K shared · 93% pos
4.6%
3,284
93%
Cyberpunk 2077
3.3K shared · 91% pos
4.5%
3,263
91%
Doki Doki Literature Club!
3.2K shared · 94% pos
4.5%
3,234
94%
Half-Life 2
3.2K shared · 97% pos
4.5%
3,228
97%
Garry's Mod
3.1K shared · 97% pos
4.3%
3,087
97%
Among Us
3.0K shared · 87% pos
4.2%
3,047
87%
Hearts of Iron IV
3.0K shared · 88% pos
4.2%
3,043
88%
People Playground
3.0K shared · 97% pos
4.2%
3,023
97%
Deep Rock Galactic
3.0K shared · 97% pos
4.2%
3,004
97%
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