How much revenue did Knock on the Coffin Lid make?

$496k–$1.3M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Knock on the Coffin Lid sell?

Q: How many copies did Knock on the Coffin Lid sell?

72k to 117k copies, based on its 3k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 72k–117k; $496k–$1.3M after Steam's cut $901k–$2.1M before the cut; from 3k 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 Knock on the Coffin Lid out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Knock on the Coffin Lid's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 149k–665k

best case 6.0M (Grim Dawn)

Games like Knock on the Coffin Lid

The middle of these games

≈ 149k–665k copies

≈ $633k–$7.2M after Steam's cut

from ~4k 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.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Action RPG (3 of 8), so the genre you lead with is still undecided.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: Grim Dawn at ≈ 4.5M–7.4M copies, ≈ $31.2M–$83.9M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Action RPG (3 of 8) and Dark Fantasy (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Action RPG + Hack and Slash, priced around $25.
The era: The games you compared span 2007 to 2023, 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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