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Action-led prison simulator gameplay positions this as an action indie game in a prison setting. Baked Games developed and self-published the 2021 release, with 2,509 Steam reviews, 86% positive rating, and a $19.99 initial price.
Overview
Prison Simulator is a 2021 Action game developed by Baked Games and published by Baked Games. On Steam it has gathered 2,307 player reviews, 86% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $20. The pairing of developer Baked Games with publisher Baked Games is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Action projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 104,000 to 242,000 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 Simulator can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
2,307
Positive
86%
Steam appid
842180
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.0104K to 242K
units (median: 173K)
≈ $1.2M to $2.8M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2021 | +15 |
| price_$20 | 0 |
| positive_86% | +10 |
| final NB | 75 |
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 Simulator at roughly 104,000 to 242,000 copies, with a median around 173,000, derived from its 2,307 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $2.0M 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
10 observed days · window low $9.99Across 10 observed UTC days from 2026-06-09 to 2026-07-24, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $9.99 to $17.30. The tracked-window low was $9.99 on 2026-06-09.
Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.
Where to buy
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Platforms
windows
Genres
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Prison Simulator sold?
- indielist estimates Prison Simulator has sold between 103,815 and 242,235 units (median 173,025), derived from its 2,307 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Prison Simulator?
- Prison Simulator was developed by Baked Games and published by Baked Games.
- Who published Prison Simulator?
- Prison Simulator was published by Baked Games, developed by Baked Games. See Baked Games's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was Prison Simulator released?
- Prison Simulator was released in 2021.
- How many reviews does Prison Simulator have on Steam?
- Prison Simulator has 2,307 Steam reviews, of which 86% are positive.
- Is Prison Simulator worth playing?
- Steam players rate Prison Simulator 86% positive across 2,307 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 Simulator can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Action titles such as Rust, Terraria, Phasmophobia, ARK: Survival Evolved, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Baked Games's other releases and Baked Games's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Prison Simulator 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 Simulator page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Action 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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