How much revenue did Prince of Persia The Lost Crown make?

$1.4M–$3.9M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Prince of Persia The Lost Crown sell?

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

175k to 284k copies, based on its 7k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 175k–284k; $1.4M–$3.9M after Steam's cut $2.6M–$6.0M before the cut; from 7k 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 Prince of Persia The Lost Crown out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Prince of Persia The Lost Crown's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 336k–650k

best case 5.8M (Celeste)

Games like Prince of Persia The Lost Crown

The middle of these games

≈ 336k–650k copies

≈ $1.7M–$3.2M after Steam's cut

from ~10k 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 2D Platformer (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: Celeste at ≈ 4.4M–7.2M copies, ≈ $24.5M–$65.8M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on 2D Platformer (4 of 8) and Exploration (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Precision Platformer + Platformer, priced around $25.
The era: The games you compared span 2010 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 79 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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VVVVVV 2010	Est. copies ≈ 666k–1.1M SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $914k–$2.5M after Steam's cut $1.7M–$3.8M before the cut	$4.99	11k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Pixel GraphicsPrecision Platformer
Celeste 2018	Est. copies ≈ 4.4M–7.2M 14x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $24.5M–$65.8M after Steam's cut $44.5M–$101.2M before the cut	$19.99	146k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Precision PlatformerDifficult
INSIDE 2016	Est. copies ≈ 3.1M–5.1M 7.3x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $21.6M–$58.2M after Steam's cut $39.4M–$89.5M before the cut	$24.99	76k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	2.5DPuzzle-Platformer
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