How much revenue did Prickle make?

$4k–$12k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Prickle sell?

Q: How many copies did Prickle sell?

2k to 4k copies, based on its 92 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2k–4k; $4k–$12k after Steam's cut $8k–$18k before the cut; from 92 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 Prickle out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Prickle's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 71k–134k

best case 926k (Baba Is You)

Games like Prickle

The middle of these games

≈ 71k–134k copies

≈ $211k–$1.3M after Steam's cut

from ~2k 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.

Best case: Baba Is You at ≈ 705k–1.1M copies, ≈ $2.9M–$7.8M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 394 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 387 to 897.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Puzzle (8 of 8) and Sokoban (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Puzzle + Logic, priced around $15.
The era: The games you compared span 2015 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 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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Hexologic 2018	Est. copies ≈ 41k–67k SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue $57k–$152k after Steam's cut $103k–$234k before the cut	$4.99	1k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	LogicPuzzle
Stephen's Sausage Roll 2016	Est. copies ≈ 84k–136k SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $692k–$1.9M after Steam's cut $1.3M–$2.9M before the cut	$29.99	2k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	PuzzleIndie
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