How much revenue did The Rogue Prince of Persia make?

$596k–$1.6M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Rogue Prince of Persia sell?

Q: How many copies did The Rogue Prince of Persia sell?

72k to 117k copies, based on its 3k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 72k–117k; $596k–$1.6M after Steam's cut $1.1M–$2.5M before Steam's cut; 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 The Rogue Prince of Persia and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Rogue Prince of Persia's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 3.3M–3.9M

best case 11.5M (Risk of Rain 2)

Games like The Rogue Prince of Persia

A typical game among these

≈ 3.3M–3.9M copies

≈ $18.6M–$31.2M after Steam's cut

from ~112k 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.

These similar games lean toward the genre's biggest winners; the typical figure comes from its ordinary successes.

Best case: Risk of Rain 2 at ≈ 8.8M–14.2M copies, ≈ $60.2M–$161.9M 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 63k reviews in their first month; the range was 17k to 129k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Rogue-like (7 of 8) and Action Roguelike (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Action Roguelike + Rogue-lite, priced around $25. The breakout hits carry Action Roguelike + Rogue-lite + 2D; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2018 to 2025, and 1 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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