How much revenue did Prisoners make?

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

How many copies did Prisoners sell?

Q: How many copies did Prisoners sell?

16k to 26k copies, based on its 636 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 16k–26k; from 636 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 Prisoners and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Prisoners's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 266k–13.5M

best case 125.7M (PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS)

Games like Prisoners

A typical game among these

≈ 266k–13.5M copies

≈ $14.4M–$43.2M after Steam's cut

from ~119k 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: PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS at ≈ 95.8M–155.7M copies.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 89 reviews in their first month; the range was 21 to 8k.

Games with under about 100 reviews in month one almost never recover.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Survival (8 of 8) and Battle Royale (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Survival + Shooter.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2017 to 2023, and none of them 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 43 for the oldest, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

Similar games

Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS 2017	Est. copies ≈ 95.8M–155.7M 23x vs typical SteamSpy 100M–200M	Est. revenue Free	Free	2.8M reviews Mixed	SurvivalShooter
Z1 Battle Royale 2018	Est. copies ≈ 6.2M–10.0M 1.7x vs typical SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue Free	Free	202k reviews Mixed	SurvivalMassively Multiplayer
Killer in the cabin 2022	Est. copies ≈ 3k–5k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $6k–$17k after Steam's cut $11k–$26k before Steam's cut	$6.99	131 reviews Mostly Positive	Social DeductionConversation
Ring of Elysium 2019	Est. copies ≈ 2.8M–4.6M SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue Free	Free	99k reviews Mostly Positive	Free to PlayBattle Royale
Among Us 2018	Est. copies ≈ 22.8M–37.0M 6.3x vs typical SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue $31.3M–$84.0M after Steam's cut $56.8M–$129.3M before Steam's cut	$4.99	749k reviews Very Positive	MultiplayerSocial Deduction
Fear Surrounds 2021	Est. copies ≈ 269k–437k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue Free	Free	11k reviews Very Positive	MultiplayerHorror
Stumble Guys 2021	Est. copies ≈ 3.4M–5.6M SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue Free	Free	139k reviews Very Positive	Free to PlayBattle Royale
ZaBaTa! 2023	Est. copies ≈ 1k–2k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue Free	Free	42 reviews Mostly Positive	CasualIndie