How many copies did Spiral Knights sell?

1.5M to 2.5M copies, based on its 24k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

How much revenue did Spiral Knights make?

Spiral Knights is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How big is Spiral Knights?

Estimated owners: ≈ 1.5M–2.5M; from 24k reviews (Very Positive)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

Does this actually work?

We left Spiral Knights out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Spiral Knights's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 4.7M–12.7M

best case 33.1M (The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth)

Games like Spiral Knights

The middle of these games

≈ 4.7M–12.7M copies

≈ $34.5M–$91.2M after Steam's cut

from ~194k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

All 8 of your similar games are hits.

Best case: The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth at ≈ 25.2M–41.0M copies, ≈ $104.0M–$279.6M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 33k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 17k to 102k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Dungeon Crawler (6 of 8) and Rogue-like (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Action Roguelike + Rogue-like, priced around $15.
The era: The games you compared span 2013 to 2024, and 1 of your 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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