How much revenue did Knight Swap 2 make?

$392–$1k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Knight Swap 2 sell?

Q: How many copies did Knight Swap 2 sell?

1k to 2k copies, based on its 50 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1k–2k; $392–$1k after Steam's cut $713–$2k before Steam's cut; from 50 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 Knight Swap 2 and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Knight Swap 2's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.0M–2.7M

best case 4.2M (INSIDE)

Games like Knight Swap 2

A typical game among these

≈ 1.0M–2.7M copies

≈ $3.7M–$22.4M after Steam's cut

from ~25k 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.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Puzzle (4 of 8), so its genre is hard to place.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: INSIDE at ≈ 3.2M–5.2M copies, ≈ $21.8M–$58.7M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Puzzle (4 of 8) and Dark (2 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with 2.5D + Puzzle-Platformer, priced around $25.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2011 to 2021, and none of them 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).

Similar games

Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
Townscaper 2021	Est. copies ≈ 537k–872k SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $884k–$2.4M after Steam's cut $1.6M–$3.7M before Steam's cut	$5.99	22k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	ExperimentalBuilding
SUPERHOT 2016	Est. copies ≈ 1.7M–2.8M 1.6x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $11.7M–$31.4M after Steam's cut $21.2M–$48.2M before Steam's cut	$24.99	41k reviews Very Positive	ActionFPS
Super Hexagon 2012	Est. copies ≈ 1.6M–2.6M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $1.3M–$3.5M after Steam's cut $2.4M–$5.4M before Steam's cut	$2.99	25k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	DifficultGreat Soundtrack
INSIDE 2016	Est. copies ≈ 3.2M–5.2M 3.1x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $21.8M–$58.7M after Steam's cut $39.7M–$90.3M before Steam's cut	$24.99	76k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	2.5DPuzzle-Platformer
Antichamber 2013	Est. copies ≈ 1.1M–1.8M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $6.2M–$16.6M after Steam's cut $11.2M–$25.6M before Steam's cut	$19.99	18k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	PuzzleFirst-Person
Mini Metro 2015	Est. copies ≈ 819k–1.3M SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $2.3M–$6.1M after Steam's cut $4.1M–$9.3M before Steam's cut	$9.99	17k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	StrategyPuzzle
LIMBO 2011	Est. copies ≈ 3.9M–6.4M 2.5x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $13.5M–$36.3M after Steam's cut $24.5M–$55.8M before Steam's cut	$12.49	62k reviews Very Positive	Puzzle-PlatformerIndie
Baba Is You 2019	Est. copies ≈ 712k–1.2M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $2.9M–$7.9M after Steam's cut $5.3M–$12.1M before Steam's cut	$14.99	25k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	PuzzleIndie