How much revenue did Prison Tycoon®: Under New Management make?

$25k–$67k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Prison Tycoon®: Under New Management sell?

Q: How many copies did Prison Tycoon®: Under New Management sell?

5k to 7k copies, based on its 184 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 5k–7k; $25k–$67k after Steam's cut $46k–$104k before the cut; from 184 reviews (Mixed)

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 Tycoon®: Under New Management out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Prison Tycoon®: Under New Management's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 7.1M–12.7M

best case 20.6M (Sid Meier’s Civilization® VI)

Games like Prison Tycoon®: Under New Management

The middle of these games

≈ 7.1M–12.7M copies

≈ $75.1M–$209.9M after Steam's cut

from ~240k reviews

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

All 8 of your similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Building (4 of 8), so the genre you lead with is still undecided.

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: Sid Meier’s Civilization® VI at ≈ 15.7M–25.6M copies, ≈ $259.5M–$697.7M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Building (4 of 8) and Management (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Turn-Based Strategy + Historical, priced around $60.
The era: The games you compared span 2015 to 2025, and 1 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 61 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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