How much revenue did Knightmare Tower make?

$46k–$124k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Knightmare Tower sell?

Q: How many copies did Knightmare Tower sell?

42k to 68k copies, based on its 748 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 42k–68k; $46k–$124k after Steam's cut $84k–$190k before Steam's cut; from 748 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 Knightmare Tower and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Knightmare Tower's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 267k–618k

best case 10.0M (Cuphead)

Games like Knightmare Tower

A typical game among these

≈ 267k–618k copies

≈ $1.2M–$4.3M after Steam's cut

from ~10k 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 Platformer (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: Cuphead at ≈ 7.6M–12.4M copies, ≈ $41.9M–$112.7M after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 3k reviews in their first month; the range was 3k to 5k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Platformer (4 of 8) and Anime (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Co-op + Platformer, priced around $20. The breakout hits carry Cartoon + Co-op + Great Soundtrack; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2016 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 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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