How many copies did Prison Simulator Prologue sell?

72k to 116k copies, based on its 3k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

How much revenue did Prison Simulator Prologue make?

Prison Simulator Prologue is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How big is Prison Simulator Prologue?

Estimated players who have it: ≈ 72k–116k; from 3k reviews (Very Positive)

Copies are estimated from the public review count, adjusted for release year, and cross-checked against SteamSpy's own estimate.

Did the prediction match what actually happened?

We hid Prison Simulator Prologue and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Prison Simulator Prologue's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 66k–1.7M

best case 11.3M (Ready or Not)

Games like Prison Simulator Prologue

A typical game among these

≈ 66k–1.7M copies

≈ $503k–$15.5M after Steam's cut

from ~15k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019's Steam releases earned $34k or more before Steam's cut, so plan for that or less.

6 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Ready or Not at ≈ 8.6M–14.0M copies, ≈ $118.4M–$318.4M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 4k reviews in their first month; the range was 84 to 143k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share FPS (6 of 8) and Crime (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Tactical + Realistic, priced around $50.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2018 to 2024, and 2 of the 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 38 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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