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Prison Boss VR is a VR indie game from Trebuchet, with the developer also listed as publisher. It released in 2017, launched at $19.99, and has 406 Steam reviews marked mixed with 0% positive in the provided data.
Overview
Prison Boss VR is a 2017 Indie game developed by TREBUCHET and published by TREBUCHET. On Steam it has gathered 445 player reviews, 87% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Indie category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $20. The pairing of developer TREBUCHET with publisher TREBUCHET is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Indie projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 24,000 to 56,000 units, with the full Boxleiter factor breakdown shown on this page rather than a single black-box figure. Within indielist's catalog of indie games mapped to their studios, publishers, and funding, Prison Boss VR can be compared against similar Indie titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
445
Positive
87%
Steam appid
673600
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.024K to 56K
units (median: 40K)
≈ $274K to $640K modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2017 | +30 |
| price_$20 | 0 |
| positive_87% | +10 |
| final NB | 90 |
Heuristic display range: median × [0.6, 1.4]. Boundary protection: NB ∈ [15, 150].
Methodology & limitations
Sales estimates use an additive Boxleiter-derived heuristic against public Steam review
counts. They are not authoritative sales data, and the fixed display range
is not a statistically validated confidence interval. Actual results may fall outside it,
especially for deeply discounted or bundle-heavy titles. Algorithm version
v1.0. Read the exact method and validation status.
indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for Prison Boss VR at roughly 24,000 to 56,000 copies, with a median around 40,000, derived from its 445 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $457K in net revenue after Steam's 30% cut, regional pricing, and refunds. Unlike black-box trackers, the full calculation is shown on this page: a base review-to-sales multiplier is adjusted for release year, launch price, review sentiment, studio size, and genre, and every adjustment is listed so developers, publishers, and investors can audit exactly how the figure was reached. The range itself reflects genuine uncertainty — review-to-sales ratios vary widely between games — so indielist publishes a low, median, and high band rather than a false-precision single number, and treats free-to-play, heavily discounted, and bundle-distributed titles as having wider error margins still.
Price history
9 observed days · window low $19.99Across 9 observed UTC days from 2026-07-15 to 2026-07-23, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $19.99 to $19.99. The tracked-window low was $19.99 on 2026-07-15.
Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.
Where to buy
Affiliate disclosure- Steam reference$19.99 Buy
- Green Man Gaming
- Fanatical
- Humble Store
- GOG.com
Latest tracked store observations (2026-07-23 06:27 UTC), cheapest first. Prices may have changed since observation. Some are affiliate links — we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. Learn more.
Platforms
windows
Genres
IndieSimulation
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Prison Boss VR sold?
- indielist estimates Prison Boss VR has sold between 24,030 and 56,070 units (median 40,050), derived from its 445 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Prison Boss VR?
- Prison Boss VR was developed by TREBUCHET and published by TREBUCHET.
- Who published Prison Boss VR?
- Prison Boss VR was published by TREBUCHET, developed by TREBUCHET. See TREBUCHET's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was Prison Boss VR released?
- Prison Boss VR was released in 2017.
- How many reviews does Prison Boss VR have on Steam?
- Prison Boss VR has 445 Steam reviews, of which 87% are positive.
- Is Prison Boss VR worth playing?
- Steam players rate Prison Boss VR 87% positive across 445 reviews. indielist doesn't score games editorially; it surfaces public review sentiment and a white-box sales estimate so you can judge reception and reach yourself.
Ecosystem
Players looking for games like Prison Boss VR can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Indie titles such as Stardew Valley, Euro Truck Simulator 2, Project Zomboid, Undertale, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, TREBUCHET's other releases and TREBUCHET's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Prison Boss VR sits among a studio's body of work and how its publisher's portfolio performs. Because indielist maps studios, publishers, games, and funding into one connected graph, the same Prison Boss VR page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Indie game, developers studying how comparable projects were positioned and what they sold, and investors tracing which teams and labels are active in the space. A machine-readable markdown mirror of this page is published at the same path with a .md suffix for AI assistants, and its review, price, and sales-estimate figures are refreshed on a schedule rather than frozen at launch.
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