Blue Prince’s Steam players are surprisingly committed

The results are in: A lot of us really like Blue Prince. The game about solving puzzles in an ever-shifting manor takes a bit to get going, but once you’re in, you’re in. Data from Steam players — where the game seems to be the most popular — backs this up, according to a LinkedIn post by Alinea Analytics analyst Rhys Elliott.

While we won’t know official numbers, Elliott says Blue Prince sales on PlayStation and Xbox are “very low right now,” but that almost 150,000 people have played it. Elliott suspects the low sales stem from the game being available on Game Pass and PlayStation Plus.

On Steam, the game peaked at over 15,000 concurrent players and is now hovering around 13,000, according to SteamDB. Steam global achievement stats tell us that almost 20% of those players have completed the game’s main goal of reaching room 46 of the 45-room mansion.

According to Elliott, just over 25% of Steam players have spent 20 to 50 hours in the game since it was released just eight days ago. These are the players who have probably pushed past the opening hours, full of dead-end rooms and unsolved puzzles, and see how deep the rabbit holes go. The percentage of players who have only just touched the surface is slightly lower at 24%.

Steam reviews can be pretty volatile when a game is fresh, but Blue Prince has held onto a “very positive” rating with over 2,500 reviews. Elliott points out that 57% of Blue Prince players also played Balatro, which makes sense if you think about how similar drafting rooms is to drawing cards. Both games have roguelike elements too, so it’s no surprise the same types of players are attracted to them.

All of this means that there are a lot of Blue Prince fans that could join us in trying to answer our biggest question about it: Why is there only one bathroom in that giant mansion?