How much revenue did Prison Simulator make?

$345k–$927k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Prison Simulator sell?

Q: How many copies did Prison Simulator sell?

63k to 102k copies, based on its 3k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 63k–102k; $345k–$927k after Steam's cut $627k–$1.4M before the cut; 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 out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Prison Simulator's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 25k–3.7M

best case 55.9M (PAYDAY 2)

Games like Prison Simulator

The middle of these games

≈ 25k–3.7M copies

≈ $1.5M–$62.3M after Steam's cut

from ~21k reviews

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

5 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: PAYDAY 2 at ≈ 42.6M–69.2M copies, ≈ $117.1M–$314.7M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 13k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 159 to 153k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Simulation (7 of 8) and Crime (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Co-op + FPS, priced around $10.
The era: The games you compared span 2013 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 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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PAYDAY 2 2013	Est. copies ≈ 42.6M–69.2M 33x vs typical SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue $117.1M–$314.7M after Steam's cut $212.8M–$484.2M before the cut	$9.99	674k reviews Very Positive	Co-opAction
NBA 2K19 2018	Est. copies ≈ 686k–1.1M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue Free	Free	23k reviews Mostly Negative	SportsBasketball
Schedule I 2025	Est. copies ≈ 7.8M–12.7M 15x vs typical SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue $42.9M–$115.2M after Steam's cut $77.9M–$177.3M before the cut	$19.99	314k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Simulation Co-op
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Thief Simulator 2018	Est. copies ≈ 1.2M–2.0M 1.9x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $6.6M–$17.8M after Steam's cut $12.0M–$27.4M before the cut	$19.99	40k reviews Very Positive	Simulation Stealth
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