How much revenue did Unlock The King make?

$3k–$8k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Unlock The King sell?

Q: How many copies did Unlock The King sell?

12k to 19k copies, based on its 401 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 12k–19k; $3k–$8k after Steam's cut $6k–$13k before the cut; from 401 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 Unlock The King out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Unlock The King's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 4k–11k

best case 19k (THE IMPOSSIBLE)

Games like Unlock The King

The middle of these games

≈ 4k–11k copies

≈ $6k–$28k after Steam's cut

from ~150 reviews

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

None of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: THE IMPOSSIBLE at ≈ 14k–23k copies, ≈ $20k–$53k after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 40 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 15 to 205.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Sokoban (8 of 8) and Puzzle (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Puzzle + Horror, priced around $5.
The era: The games you compared span 2015 to 2025, and 2 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 61 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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