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Papers, Please
Lucas Pope
· Aug 8, 2013
Indie
Political
Simulation
Point & Click
Singleplayer
+15
S
Like Score · tier S
1,704
qualityScore
▼
266 · 7d
Price
$9.99
Reviews
72K
97% positive
Inbound MLT
1,310
peers liking this
Lifetime units
4.76M
est · medium conf
Status
Live
Overwhelmingly Positive
Live
· refreshed Jun 13
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01
Sales
$47.54M est
02
Like Score
1.7K · 1.3K
03
Reviews
72K
04
Overlap
20 peers
Lifetime gross spend
$47.54M
est
grossAtFullPrice $47.54M · promo blend
Net to developer
$30.62M
est
after Valve / VAT / refunds
Lifetime units
4,758,798
▼ 86.1%
0 / day median · launch
Launch window · 30d
$0
0% of LTD
0 units · $0.00 ASP
Confidence
medium
±18%
Based on 72,103 reviews collected over 12.9 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
1,704
QUALITY SCORE
Tier
S
·
▼ 266
7d
D
C
B
A
S ●
Inbound
1,310
×
Σ log₁₀(R+1)
99
Avg pos%
93%
→ 1,704
Score history · 30d retention
2,526 (28d ago)
1,704 (now)
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Biggest games linking to you
Steam puts Papers, Please in their “More Like This” · 1,310 inbound · top 10 by audience
Undertale
292K reviews · 96% pos · tobyfox · 2015
OMORI
78K reviews · 97% pos · OMOCAT, LLC · 2020
To the Moon
69K reviews · 95% pos · Freebird Games · 2012
Plague Inc: Evolved
56K reviews · 94% pos · Ndemic Creations · 2016
There Is No Game: Wrong Dimension
24K reviews · 97% pos · Draw Me A Pixel · 2020
Baba Is You
21K reviews · 97% pos · Hempuli Oy · 2019
Machinarium
17K reviews · 95% pos · Amanita Design · 2009
Beholder
23K reviews · 91% pos · Alawar Stargaze (Warm Lamp Games) · 2016
Gunpoint
10K reviews · 97% pos · Suspicious Developments · 2013
Steam Engine Simulator
8.9K reviews · 98% pos · Ektorom Software Inc. · 2023
03
Papers, Please’s “More like this”
Outbound MLT · 30 games
#1
Teller's Duty
91%
34
#2
Thank You For Your Application
0%
0
#3
Pronoun Palace
99%
601
#4
False Echo
0%
0
#5
Phonopolis
92%
1.0K
#6
XenoFeels
0%
0
#7
Undertale
96%
292K
#8
No, I'm not a Human
93%
25K
Review score
9
/ 9
Overwhelmingly Positive
% positive
97.3%
cohort 71%
70,239 pos · 1,974 neg
Total reviews
72K
tracked
72,213 crawled
Velocity · all-time
17 / day
est
72,213 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%
37,773
97%
RU
Russian
8.5%
6,123
98%
ES
Spanish
8.1%
5,848
99%
PT
Brazilian Portuguese
6.5%
4,659
99%
TR
Turkish
5.6%
4,047
97%
ZH
Simplified Chinese
3.7%
2,679
94%
DE
German
2.4%
1,737
96%
PL
Polish
2.4%
1,722
98%
KO
Korean
2.3%
1,685
95%
FR
French
1.7%
1,202
97%
ES
Latin American Spanish
1.5%
1,052
98%
IT
Italian
1.2%
850
98%
02
Reviews by playtime
Hours played at time of review · positive% per bucket
0-1h
3,423
82
%
positive
4.7% of reviews
refund window
1-10h
43,200
97
%
positive
59.8% of reviews
10-100h
25,209
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 70,239
Negative 1,974
1.8k
1.3k
887
443
0
14·08
16·02
17·08
19·02
20·08
22·02
23·08
25·02
26·06
04
Breakdowns
Reviews segmented · count, % of total, % positive
72,213 reviews
Free product
1,098
/ 72,213
1.5% of total
98% positive
Early access
0
/ 72,213
0.0% of total
— no data
Key activation
6,114
/ 72,213
8.5% of total
96% positive
Steam Deck
152
/ 72,213
0.2% of total
88% positive
Steam purchase
65,001
/ 72,213
90.0% of total
97% positive
Recommended
70,239
/ 72,213
97.3% of total
— votedUp
Not recommended
1,974
/ 72,213
2.7% of total
— votedDown
Reviews crawled
72,213
/ 72,213
100.0% of total
97% positive
Reviewers tracked
72,195
indexed
20 peers with shared reviewers
Strongest peer
Portal 2
10.4%
7,528 shared reviewers
Net-new audience
94%
est
67,863 reviewers no peer shares
Avg overlap
5.7%
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
7.5K shared · 99% pos
10.4%
7,528
99%
Undertale
5.8K shared · 94% pos
8.1%
5,834
94%
Portal
5.2K shared · 98% pos
7.2%
5,207
98%
PAYDAY 2
4.9K shared · 89% pos
6.8%
4,874
89%
Hollow Knight
4.7K shared · 95% pos
6.5%
4,706
95%
Half-Life 2
4.1K shared · 97% pos
5.6%
4,068
97%
The Forest
3.9K shared · 94% pos
5.5%
3,945
94%
Hotline Miami
3.9K shared · 96% pos
5.4%
3,889
96%
Lethal Company
3.8K shared · 96% pos
5.3%
3,840
96%
The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth
3.8K shared · 95% pos
5.2%
3,786
95%
Subnautica
3.7K shared · 97% pos
5.1%
3,709
97%
Stardew Valley
3.7K shared · 97% pos
5.1%
3,680
97%
Unturned
3.7K shared · 85% pos
5.1%
3,664
85%
Hades
3.5K shared · 96% pos
4.9%
3,550
96%
Cuphead
3.5K shared · 97% pos
4.8%
3,497
97%
Fallout: New Vegas
3.4K shared · 95% pos
4.7%
3,417
95%
Left 4 Dead 2
3.4K shared · 97% pos
4.7%
3,402
97%
Project Zomboid
3.3K shared · 93% pos
4.6%
3,335
93%
Cyberpunk 2077
3.3K shared · 91% pos
4.6%
3,296
91%
Doki Doki Literature Club!
3.3K shared · 95% pos
4.5%
3,260
95%
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