How much revenue did Candle Knight make?

$5k–$13k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Candle Knight sell?

Q: How many copies did Candle Knight sell?

1k to 2k copies, based on its 49 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1k–2k; $5k–$13k after Steam's cut $9k–$21k before the cut; from 49 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 Candle Knight out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Candle Knight's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 525k–670k

best case 6.6M (STAR WARS Jedi: Fallen Order™)

Games like Candle Knight

The middle of these games

≈ 525k–670k copies

≈ $3.9M–$4.7M after Steam's cut

from ~13k 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: STAR WARS Jedi: Fallen Order™ at ≈ 5.0M–8.2M copies, ≈ $55.4M–$149.0M 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 5k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 2k to 23k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Metroidvania (7 of 8) and Exploration (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Beautiful + Metroidvania, priced around $30. The breakout hits carry Action + Atmospheric; 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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