How much revenue did Shovel Knight Pocket Dungeon make?

$86k–$231k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Shovel Knight Pocket Dungeon sell?

Q: How many copies did Shovel Knight Pocket Dungeon sell?

16k to 25k copies, based on its 631 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 16k–25k; $86k–$231k after Steam's cut $156k–$356k before the cut; from 631 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 Shovel Knight Pocket Dungeon out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Shovel Knight Pocket Dungeon's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 105k–222k

best case 558k (Legend of Grimrock)

Games like Shovel Knight Pocket Dungeon

The middle of these games

≈ 105k–222k copies

≈ $428k–$1.5M after Steam's cut

from ~3k 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: Legend of Grimrock at ≈ 425k–691k copies, ≈ $1.8M–$4.7M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 2k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 583 to 2k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Puzzle (6 of 8) and Dungeon Crawler (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Dungeon Crawler + Grid-Based Movement, priced around $15.
The era: The games you compared span 2012 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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