How much revenue did Stoneshard: Prologue make?

Stoneshard: Prologue is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How many copies did Stoneshard: Prologue sell?

Q: How many copies did Stoneshard: Prologue sell?

108k to 176k copies, based on its 4k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 108k–176k; from 4k 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 Stoneshard: Prologue out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Stoneshard: Prologue's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 7.3M–10.6M

best case 35.1M (ARK: Survival Evolved)

Games like Stoneshard: Prologue

The middle of these games

≈ 7.3M–10.6M copies

≈ $94.1M–$112.8M after Steam's cut

from ~234k 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 MMORPG (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: ARK: Survival Evolved at ≈ 26.7M–43.4M copies, ≈ $110.1M–$296.0M 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 102k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 57k to 128k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on MMORPG (4 of 8) and Action RPG (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Open World Survival Craft + Survival, priced around $15. The breakout hits carry Open World Survival Craft + Survival + Open World; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2013 to 2024, 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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