How many copies has Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove sold?

indielist estimates Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove has sold between 892,206 and 2,081,814 units (median 1,487,010), derived from its 14,162 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.

Who developed Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove?

Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove was developed by Yacht Club Games and published by Yacht Club Games.

Who published Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove?

Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove was published by Yacht Club Games, developed by Yacht Club Games. See Yacht Club Games's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.

When was Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove released?

Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove was released in 2014.

How many reviews does Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove have on Steam?

Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove has 14,162 Steam reviews, of which 95% are positive.

Is Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove worth playing?

Steam players rate Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove 95% positive across 14,162 reviews. indielist doesn't score games editorially; it surfaces public review sentiment and a white-box sales estimate so you can judge reception and reach yourself.

Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove

Jun 26, 2014 Action $39.99

Developer Yacht Club Games Publisher Yacht Club Games

Profile updated May 2026

This action-adventure game, released in 2014, features a blend of platforming and combat. Over 13,938 Steam reviews indicate player interest. The developer slug is unknown, and publisher attribution is not yet imported.

Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove is a 2014 Action game developed by Yacht Club Games and published by Yacht Club Games. On Steam it has gathered 14,162 player reviews, 95% of them positive, which counts as a overwhelmingly positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on linux, mac, windows, and launched at $40. The pairing of developer Yacht Club Games with publisher Yacht Club Games is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Action projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 892,000 to 2.1 million units, with the full Boxleiter factor breakdown shown on this page rather than a single black-box figure. Within indielist's catalog of indie games mapped to their studios, publishers, and funding, Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.

Reviews

14,162

Positive

95%

Steam appid

250760

Engine

Unknown

Players (snapshot)

223

Historical snapshot · 2026-05-24 16:40 UTC

Sales estimate

v1.0

892K to 2.1M

units (median: 1.5M)

≈ $20.4M to $47.6M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)

892K median 2.1M

+ How is this calculated?

14,162 reviews × NB(105) = 1,487,010 median units

Factor	Adjustment
base	+50
year_2014	+30
price_$40	+15
positive_95%	+10
final NB	105

Heuristic display range: median × [0.6, 1.4]. Boundary protection: NB ∈ [15, 150].

Methodology & limitations

Sales estimates use an additive Boxleiter-derived heuristic against public Steam review counts. They are not authoritative sales data, and the fixed display range is not a statistically validated confidence interval. Actual results may fall outside it, especially for deeply discounted or bundle-heavy titles. Algorithm version v1.0. Read the exact method and validation status.

indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove at roughly 892,000 to 2.1 million copies, with a median around 1.5 million, derived from its 14,162 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $34.0M in net revenue after Steam's 30% cut, regional pricing, and refunds. Unlike black-box trackers, the full calculation is shown on this page: a base review-to-sales multiplier is adjusted for release year, launch price, review sentiment, studio size, and genre, and every adjustment is listed so developers, publishers, and investors can audit exactly how the figure was reached. The range itself reflects genuine uncertainty — review-to-sales ratios vary widely between games — so indielist publishes a low, median, and high band rather than a false-precision single number, and treats free-to-play, heavily discounted, and bundle-distributed titles as having wider error margins still.

Price history

54 observed days · window low $25.99

Across 54 observed UTC days from 2026-05-31 to 2026-07-24, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $25.99 to $39.99. The tracked-window low was $25.99 on 2026-06-26.

Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.

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Frequently asked questions

How many copies has Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove sold?: indielist estimates Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove has sold between 892,206 and 2,081,814 units (median 1,487,010), derived from its 14,162 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
Who developed Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove?: Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove was developed by Yacht Club Games and published by Yacht Club Games.
Who published Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove?: Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove was published by Yacht Club Games, developed by Yacht Club Games. See Yacht Club Games's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
When was Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove released?: Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove was released in 2014.
How many reviews does Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove have on Steam?: Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove has 14,162 Steam reviews, of which 95% are positive.
Is Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove worth playing?: Steam players rate Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove 95% positive across 14,162 reviews. indielist doesn't score games editorially; it surfaces public review sentiment and a white-box sales estimate so you can judge reception and reach yourself.

Players looking for games like Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Action titles such as Jump King, Pizza Tower, Broforce, Crypt of the NecroDancer, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Yacht Club Games's other releases and Yacht Club Games's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove sits among a studio's body of work and how its publisher's portfolio performs. Because indielist maps studios, publishers, games, and funding into one connected graph, the same Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Action game, developers studying how comparable projects were positioned and what they sold, and investors tracing which teams and labels are active in the space. A machine-readable markdown mirror of this page is published at the same path with a .md suffix for AI assistants, and its review, price, and sales-estimate figures are refreshed on a schedule rather than frozen at launch.

Matched from shared Steam tags and primary genre. Review count breaks ties; it is not a personal recommendation score.