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How many copies did Prison Fights Simulator sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 422–685
$115–$309 after Steam's cut $209–$475 before the cut
from 17 reviews (Mixed)

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

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

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 727k–1.4M
best case 10.2M (Schedule I)
Games like Prison Fights Simulator

The middle of these games

≈ 727k–1.4M copies

≈ $3.9M–$11.3M after Steam's cut

from ~34k 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: Schedule I at ≈ 7.8M–12.7M copies, ≈ $42.9M–$115.2M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here
About half the games that made it here had over 8k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 4k to 153k.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Simulation (7 of 8) and Crime (5 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Simulation + Co-op, priced around $20. The breakout hits carry Co-op + Management + Action; a typical game here doesn't.
The era
The games you compared span 2018 to 2025, 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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