How much revenue did A Knight in the Attic make?

$953–$3k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did A Knight in the Attic sell?

Q: How many copies did A Knight in the Attic sell?

347 to 564 copies, based on its 14 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 347–564; $953–$3k after Steam's cut $2k–$4k before the cut; from 14 reviews (Mostly 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 A Knight in the Attic out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including A Knight in the Attic's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 93k–137k

best case 1.5M (Inside the Backrooms)

Games like A Knight in the Attic

The middle of these games

≈ 93k–137k copies

≈ $1.0M–$1.6M 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: Inside the Backrooms at ≈ 1.2M–1.9M copies, ≈ $2.2M–$6.0M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 724 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 392 to 3k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Puzzle (8 of 8) and First-Person (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Puzzle, priced around $9. The breakout hits carry Escape Room; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2016 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 52 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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