Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove
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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.
Overview
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 16,719 player reviews, 96% 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 model estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 1.1 million to 2.5 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
16,719
Positive
96%
Steam appid
250760
Engine
n/a
Sales estimate
vv1.01.1M to 2.5M
units (median: 1.8M)
≈ $24.1M to $56.1M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove at roughly 1.1 million to 2.5 million copies, with a median around 1.8 million, derived from its 16,719 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter model (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $40.1M 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
90d · low $23.35Over the last 90 days the price ranged from $23.35 to $39.99, averaging $37.78 across 3 discount windows, with a historical low of $23.35 on 2026-05-24.
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Platforms
linuxmacwindows
Tags
PlatformerPixel GraphicsRetroGreat SoundtrackIndie2DAdventureActionSingleplayerDifficultSide ScrollerKickstarterFantasyOld SchoolMedievalFunnyArcadeComedyRPGLocal Co-Op
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove sold?
- indielist estimates Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove has sold between 1,053,297 and 2,457,693 units (median 1,755,495), derived from its 16,719 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter vv1.0 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.
- 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 16,719 Steam reviews, of which 96% are positive.
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove sold?
- indielist estimates Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove has sold between 1,053,297 and 2,457,693 units (median 1,755,495), derived from its 16,719 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter vv1.0 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.
- 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 16,719 Steam reviews, of which 96% are positive.
Ecosystem
indielist positions Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove within the Action segment so players can surface comparable titles by shared tags and genre rather than by storefront promotion. 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.