How much revenue did Prose & Codes make?

$23k–$63k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Prose & Codes sell?

Q: How many copies did Prose & Codes sell?

8k to 14k copies, based on its 342 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 8k–14k; $23k–$63k after Steam's cut $42k–$96k before Steam's cut; from 342 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 Prose & Codes and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Prose & Codes's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 17k–27k

best case 1.1M (Draw & Guess)

Games like Prose & Codes

A typical game among these

≈ 17k–27k copies

≈ $56k–$183k after Steam's cut

from ~683 reviews

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

3 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Draw & Guess at ≈ 874k–1.4M copies, ≈ $1.2M–$3.2M after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 161 reviews in their first month; the range was 57 to 2k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Puzzle (5 of 8) and Word Game (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Party + Party Game, priced around $12. The breakout hits carry Party + Online Co-Op + Party Game; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: Only 2 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. That says more about which games were found than about the market.

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 of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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