How much revenue did Prime World make?

Prime World is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How many copies did Prime World sell?

Q: How many copies did Prime World sell?

211k to 342k copies, based on its 4k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 211k–342k; from 4k reviews (Mixed)

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 Prime World and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Prime World's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 702k–1.0M

best case 7.7M (SMITE®)

Games like Prime World

A typical game among these

≈ 702k–1.0M copies

≈ $1.1M–$2.2M after Steam's cut

from ~14k reviews

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

All 8 of the similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is MOBA (3 of 8), so its genre is hard to place.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: SMITE® at ≈ 5.9M–9.5M copies. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share MOBA (3 of 8) and Competitive (2 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with MOBA + Third Person. The breakout hits carry Free to Play + PvP; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: None of the similar games shipped in the last two years; the newest is from 2019. 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 that falls with release age, from about 36 for the most recent game here to about 70 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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Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
SMITE® 2015	Est. copies ≈ 5.9M–9.5M 8.5x vs typical SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue Free	Free	120k reviews Mostly Positive	Free to PlayMOBA
NEKOPARA Vol. 2 2016	Est. copies ≈ 535k–870k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $1.5M–$4.0M after Steam's cut $2.7M–$6.1M before Steam's cut	$9.99	13k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	AnimeSexual Content
AirMech 2018	Est. copies ≈ 330k–537k SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue Free	Free	11k reviews Very Positive	Free to PlayStrategy
Garfield Kart 2015	Est. copies ≈ 691k–1.1M SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $948k–$2.5M after Steam's cut $1.7M–$3.9M before Steam's cut	$4.99	14k reviews Very Positive	Cult ClassicCombat Racing
Minion Masters 2019	Est. copies ≈ 1.9M–3.1M 4.6x vs typical SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue Free	Free	65k reviews Very Positive	PvETrading Card Game
Mountain 2014	Est. copies ≈ 912k–1.5M SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $248k–$668k after Steam's cut $452k–$1.0M before Steam's cut	$0.99	16k reviews Very Positive	SimulationIndie
Dungeon Defenders II 2017	Est. copies ≈ 763k–1.2M 1.6x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue Free	Free	22k reviews Mostly Positive	MultiplayerOnline Co-Op
Battlerite 2017	Est. copies ≈ 2.0M–3.3M 4.2x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue Free	Free	59k reviews Very Positive	PvPMultiplayer