How much revenue did Shovel Knight Pocket Dungeon make?

$86k–$232k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Shovel Knight Pocket Dungeon sell?

Q: How many copies did Shovel Knight Pocket Dungeon sell?

16k to 26k copies, based on its 634 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 16k–26k; $86k–$232k after Steam's cut $157k–$358k before Steam's cut; from 634 reviews (Very Positive)

Copies are estimated from the public review count, adjusted for release year, and cross-checked against SteamSpy's own estimate.

Did the prediction match what actually happened?

We hid Shovel Knight Pocket Dungeon and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Shovel Knight Pocket Dungeon's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 106k–223k

best case 559k (Legend of Grimrock)

Games like Shovel Knight Pocket Dungeon

A typical game among these

≈ 106k–223k copies

≈ $429k–$1.5M after Steam's cut

from ~3k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019's Steam releases earned $34k or more before Steam's cut, so plan for that or less.

All 8 of the similar games are hits.

Best case: Legend of Grimrock at ≈ 426k–692k copies, ≈ $1.8M–$4.7M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 2k reviews in their first month; the range was 583 to 2k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Puzzle (6 of 8) and Dungeon Crawler (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Dungeon Crawler + Grid-Based Movement, priced around $15.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2012 to 2024, and 1 of the 8 shipped in the last two years.

How these numbers were worked out

A hit here: 1,000+ reviews, roughly $150k+ before Steam's cut (a standard indie benchmark).

Copies come from each game's reviews times a sales-per-review rate that falls with release age, from about 31 for the most recent game here to about 79 for the oldest, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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