How many copies has Shovel Knight Dig sold?

indielist estimates Shovel Knight Dig has sold between 26,961 and 62,909 units (median 44,935), derived from its 817 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.

Who developed Shovel Knight Dig?

Shovel Knight Dig was developed by Nitrome and published by Yacht Club Games.

Who published Shovel Knight Dig?

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

When was Shovel Knight Dig released?

Shovel Knight Dig was released in 2022.

How many reviews does Shovel Knight Dig have on Steam?

Shovel Knight Dig has 817 Steam reviews, of which 75% are positive.

Is Shovel Knight Dig worth playing?

Steam players rate Shovel Knight Dig 75% positive across 817 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 Dig

Sep 23, 2022 Action $24.99

Developer Nitrome Publisher Yacht Club Games

Profile updated Jun 2026

Action roguelike indie game with 2D action-adventure play and cute rogue-like tags. Developed by nitrome and published by yacht-club-games, Shovel Knight Dig released in 2022 and has 895 Steam reviews at 75% positive, with an initial price of $24.99.

Shovel Knight Dig is a 2022 Action game developed by Nitrome and published by Yacht Club Games. On Steam it has gathered 817 player reviews, 75% of them positive, which counts as a mostly positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $25. The pairing of developer Nitrome 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 27,000 to 63,000 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 Dig can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.

Reviews

817

Positive

75%

Steam appid

1416050

Engine

Unknown

Players (snapshot)

Unavailable

Sales estimate

v1.0

27K to 63K

units (median: 45K)

≈ $385K to $898K modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)

27K median 63K

+ How is this calculated?

817 reviews × NB(55) = 44,935 median units

Factor	Adjustment
base	+50
year_2022	0
price_$25	+5
positive_75%	0
final NB	55

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 Dig at roughly 27,000 to 63,000 copies, with a median around 45,000, derived from its 817 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $641K 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

14 observed days · window low $24.99

Across 14 observed UTC days from 2026-06-03 to 2026-07-22, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $24.99 to $24.99. The tracked-window low was $24.99 on 2026-06-03.

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

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Platforms

windows

Frequently asked questions

How many copies has Shovel Knight Dig sold?: indielist estimates Shovel Knight Dig has sold between 26,961 and 62,909 units (median 44,935), derived from its 817 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
Who developed Shovel Knight Dig?: Shovel Knight Dig was developed by Nitrome and published by Yacht Club Games.
Who published Shovel Knight Dig?: Shovel Knight Dig was published by Yacht Club Games, developed by Nitrome. See Yacht Club Games's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
When was Shovel Knight Dig released?: Shovel Knight Dig was released in 2022.
How many reviews does Shovel Knight Dig have on Steam?: Shovel Knight Dig has 817 Steam reviews, of which 75% are positive.
Is Shovel Knight Dig worth playing?: Steam players rate Shovel Knight Dig 75% positive across 817 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 Dig can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Action titles such as Skul: The Hero Slayer, Owlboy, Pizza Tower, SANABI, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Nitrome's other releases and Yacht Club Games's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Shovel Knight Dig 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 Dig 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.