How much revenue did Vivid Knight make?

$175k–$470k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Vivid Knight sell?

Q: How many copies did Vivid Knight sell?

42k to 69k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 42k–69k; $175k–$470k after Steam's cut $318k–$723k before the cut; from 2k 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 Vivid Knight out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Vivid Knight's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 221k–474k

best case 672k (Backpack Battles)

Games like Vivid Knight

The middle of these games

≈ 221k–474k copies

≈ $1.7M–$3.0M after Steam's cut

from ~8k reviews

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

3 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Backpack Battles at ≈ 512k–832k copies, ≈ $2.1M–$5.7M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 220 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 34 to 16k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Auto Battler (5 of 8) and Inventory Management (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Auto Battler + Inventory Management, priced around $15.
The era: 4 of your 8 similar games shipped in the last two years, so this niche is actively shipping.

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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