How much revenue did Kingdom Shell make?

$34k–$93k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Kingdom Shell sell?

Q: How many copies did Kingdom Shell sell?

7k to 11k copies, based on its 281 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 7k–11k; $34k–$93k after Steam's cut $63k–$143k before the cut; from 281 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 Kingdom Shell out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Kingdom Shell's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 4.3M–6.9M

best case 25.3M (Hollow Knight)

Games like Kingdom Shell

The middle of these games

≈ 4.3M–6.9M copies

≈ $33.7M–$63.1M after Steam's cut

from ~146k 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: Hollow Knight at ≈ 19.2M–31.3M copies, ≈ $79.3M–$213.3M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Platformer (5 of 8) and Metroidvania (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Metroidvania + Souls-like, priced around $15. The breakout hits carry 2D + Difficult + Metroidvania; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2010 to 2020, 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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