We reached out to Crazy Rocks founder Staszek Gromadowski to find out how this tiny Polish dev - three devs at the start, five towards the end - created a big Steam hit: How? Perhaps we can work it out by diving into why Contraband Police has been such a smash. Some publicly traded Polish game companies have faded, but PlayWay, with a market cap of around USD $670 million, has weathered the storm better than most. We wrote about them back in 2021, explaining how they leverage a web of tiny development companies - some listed on the Warsaw Stock Exchange - to make hyper-targeted sim games. Polish publisher PlayWay continues to be a fascinating subject. “On April 4, Crazy Rocks announced that Contraband Police had sold 250,000 units since its launch on March 8… 49,000 copies of Contraband Police were sold in the first 24 hours, according to PlayWay CEO Krzysztof Kostowski. As Game World Observer noted a few days ago : For those who don’t know, Crazy Rocks’ & PlayWay’s ‘80s communist ‘bust those smugglers’ sim Contraband Police has been one of the standout new releases of March for Steam.
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