How much revenue did Knock on the Coffin Lid make?

$496k–$1.3M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Knock on the Coffin Lid sell?

Q: How many copies did Knock on the Coffin Lid sell?

72k to 117k copies, based on its 3k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 72k–117k; $496k–$1.3M after Steam's cut $903k–$2.1M before Steam's cut; from 3k 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 Knock on the Coffin Lid and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Knock on the Coffin Lid's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 149k–665k

best case 6.0M (Grim Dawn)

Games like Knock on the Coffin Lid

A typical game among these

≈ 149k–665k copies

≈ $637k–$7.2M after Steam's cut

from ~4k 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 Action RPG (3 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: Grim Dawn at ≈ 4.6M–7.4M copies, ≈ $31.4M–$84.5M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Action RPG (3 of 8) and Dark Fantasy (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Action RPG + Hack and Slash, priced around $25.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2007 to 2023, 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).

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Thief: Deadly Shadows 2007	Est. copies ≈ 166k–269k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $409k–$1.1M after Steam's cut $744k–$1.7M before Steam's cut	$8.99	3k reviews Very Positive	StealthAtmospheric
Hellsplit: Arena 2019	Est. copies ≈ 114k–185k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $783k–$2.1M after Steam's cut $1.4M–$3.2M before Steam's cut	$24.99	4k reviews Very Positive	VRAction
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Grim Dawn 2016	Est. copies ≈ 4.6M–7.4M 27x vs typical SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue $31.4M–$84.5M after Steam's cut $57.2M–$130.0M before Steam's cut	$24.99	110k reviews Very Positive	Action RPGHack and Slash
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