How much revenue did Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove make?

$10.4M–$28.0M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove sell?

Q: How many copies did Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove sell?

946k to 1.5M copies, based on its 17k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 946k–1.5M; $10.4M–$28.0M after Steam's cut $18.9M–$43.0M before the cut; from 17k reviews (Overwhelmingly 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: Treasure Trove out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2.2M–3.4M

best case 5.8M (Celeste)

Games like Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove

The middle of these games

≈ 2.2M–3.4M copies

≈ $15.6M–$20.6M after Steam's cut

from ~53k 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: Celeste at ≈ 4.4M–7.2M copies, ≈ $24.5M–$65.8M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Platformer (7 of 8) and 2D Platformer (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Precision Platformer + Platformer, priced around $20.
The era: The games you compared span 2010 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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