How many copies has Prose & Codes sold?

indielist estimates Prose & Codes has sold between 7,584 and 17,696 units (median 12,640), derived from its 316 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.

Who developed Prose & Codes?

Prose & Codes was developed by Hero Game Co LLC and published by Hero Game Co LLC.

Who published Prose & Codes?

Prose & Codes was published by Hero Game Co LLC, developed by Hero Game Co LLC. See Hero Game Co LLC's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.

When was Prose & Codes released?

Prose & Codes was released in 2022.

How many reviews does Prose & Codes have on Steam?

Prose & Codes has 316 Steam reviews, of which 99% are positive.

Is Prose & Codes worth playing?

Steam players rate Prose & Codes 99% positive across 316 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.

Prose & Codes

Feb 11, 2022 Casual $9.99

Developer Hero Game Co LLC Publisher Hero Game Co LLC

Profile updated Jul 2026

Casual puzzle and word game built around relaxing logic play, Prose & Codes fits the budget indie game niche at $9.99. Released in 2022 by developer and publisher hero-game-co-llc, it has 307 Steam reviews marked mixed.

Prose & Codes is a 2022 Casual game developed by Hero Game Co LLC and published by Hero Game Co LLC. On Steam it has gathered 316 player reviews, 99% of them positive, which counts as a overwhelmingly positive reception among indie titles in the Casual category. The game is available on linux, mac, windows, and launched at $10. The pairing of developer Hero Game Co LLC with publisher Hero Game Co LLC is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Casual projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 8,000 to 18,000 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, Prose & Codes can be compared against similar Casual titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.

Reviews

316

Positive

99%

Steam appid

1718910

Engine

Unknown

Players (snapshot)

Unavailable

Sales estimate

v1.0

8K to 18K

units (median: 13K)

≈ $43K to $101K modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)

8K median 18K

+ How is this calculated?

316 reviews × NB(40) = 12,640 median units

Factor	Adjustment
base	+50
year_2022	0
price_$10	-5
positive_99%	+10
genre_Casual	-15
final NB	40

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 Prose & Codes at roughly 8,000 to 18,000 copies, with a median around 13,000, derived from its 316 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $72K 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

15 observed days · window low $4.99

Across 15 observed UTC days from 2026-07-15 to 2026-09-04, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $4.99 to $9.99. The tracked-window low was $4.99 on 2026-07-15.

Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.

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Platforms

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Frequently asked questions

How many copies has Prose & Codes sold?: indielist estimates Prose & Codes has sold between 7,584 and 17,696 units (median 12,640), derived from its 316 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
Who developed Prose & Codes?: Prose & Codes was developed by Hero Game Co LLC and published by Hero Game Co LLC.
Who published Prose & Codes?: Prose & Codes was published by Hero Game Co LLC, developed by Hero Game Co LLC. See Hero Game Co LLC's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
When was Prose & Codes released?: Prose & Codes was released in 2022.
How many reviews does Prose & Codes have on Steam?: Prose & Codes has 316 Steam reviews, of which 99% are positive.
Is Prose & Codes worth playing?: Steam players rate Prose & Codes 99% positive across 316 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.

Players looking for games like Prose & Codes can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Casual titles such as The Roottrees are Dead, Unpacking, Creaks, Samorost 3, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Hero Game Co LLC's other releases and Hero Game Co LLC's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Prose & Codes 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 Prose & Codes page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Casual 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.

Matched from shared Steam tags and primary genre. Review count breaks ties; it is not a personal recommendation score.