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Phasmophobia vs Prison Architect

Reviews on Steam

Phasmophobia

11.3× more reviews

Critical reception

Phasmophobia

5.3pp gap

Cheaper at launch

Phasmophobia

$10.00 cheaper

Estimated sales (median)

Phasmophobia

8.9× more units (white-box estimate)

More recent

Phasmophobia

5 years apart

A

Phasmophobia

2020 · Action

Kinetic Games · Kinetic Games

Reviews
676,875
Positive
95%
Launch price
$19.99
Engine
n/a
Sales (median)
50.8M
Net rev
$579.7M
B

Prison Architect

2015 · Indie

Introversion Software · Paradox Interactive

Reviews
59,769
Positive
89%
Launch price
$29.99
Engine
n/a
Sales (median)
5.7M
Net rev
$97.3M

Tag overlap

15% shared , 3 shared tags, 17 only on Phasmophobia, 17 only on Prison Architect.

Only Phasmophobia

HorrorOnline Co-OpPsychological HorrorCo-opSupernaturalVRFirst-PersonInvestigationDarkDemonsDetectiveMysteryThriller3DEarly AccessActionTactical

Shared

MultiplayerIndieSingleplayer

Only Prison Architect

SimulationBuildingSandboxBase-BuildingColony SimStrategyManagementCity Builder2DTop-DownResource ManagementEconomyModdableCapitalismFunnyReplay ValueCasual

Sales estimates

Both estimates use the same vv1.0 multi-factor Boxleiter method. Click "How is this calculated?" on either to see the per-factor breakdown.

Sales estimate

vv1.0

30.5M to 71.1M

units (median: 50.8M)

≈ $347.8M to $811.5M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)

30.5Mmedian71.1M

Sales estimate

vv1.0

3.4M to 7.9M

units (median: 5.7M)

≈ $58.4M to $136.2M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)

3.4Mmedian7.9M

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