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How many copies did King's Keeper sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 124–202
$681–$2k after Steam's cut $1k–$3k before Steam's cut
from 5 reviews (5 user reviews)
Only 5 reviews so far, so that range swings on one or two people. Read it as a hint, not a measurement.

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 King's Keeper and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including King's Keeper's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.2M–1.6M
best case 13.0M (Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition)
Games like King's Keeper

A typical game among these

≈ 1.2M–1.6M copies

≈ $4.1M–$7.8M after Steam's cut

from ~26k 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: Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition at ≈ 9.9M–16.1M copies, ≈ $13.6M–$36.5M after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering
These games
The similar games share Building (5 of 8) and Tower Defense (5 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Tower Defense + Zombies, priced around $17. The breakout hits carry Zombies + Tower Defense + Classic; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped
The similar games span 2009 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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