How much revenue did Vivid Knight make?

$175k–$469k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Vivid Knight sell?

Q: How many copies did Vivid Knight sell?

42k to 69k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 42k–69k; $175k–$469k after Steam's cut $317k–$722k before Steam's cut; from 2k 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 Vivid Knight and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Vivid Knight's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 5k–194k

best case 675k (Backpack Battles)

Games like Vivid Knight

A typical game among these

≈ 5k–194k copies

≈ $23k–$1.5M after Steam's cut

from ~539 reviews

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

3 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Backpack Battles at ≈ 515k–836k copies, ≈ $2.1M–$5.7M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 219 reviews in their first month; the range was 35 to 16k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Auto Battler (5 of 8) and Inventory Management (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Auto Battler + Inventory Management, priced around $15.
When they shipped: 4 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years, so this genre is actively shipping.

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 52 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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