How many copies did Prison Simulator Prologue sell?

72k to 117k 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 owners: ≈ 72k–117k; from 3k reviews (Very Positive)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

Does this actually work?

We left Prison Simulator Prologue out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Prison Simulator Prologue's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 66k–1.7M

best case 11.2M (Ready or Not)

Games like Prison Simulator Prologue

The middle of these games

≈ 66k–1.7M copies

≈ $502k–$15.3M after Steam's cut

from ~15k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

6 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Ready or Not at ≈ 8.5M–13.9M copies, ≈ $117.4M–$315.6M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

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

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on FPS (6 of 8) and Crime (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Tactical + Realistic, priced around $50.
The era: The games you compared span 2018 to 2024, and 2 of your 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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