Shovel Knight: Specter of Torment
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Action-focused indie game Shovel Knight: Specter of Torment comes from Yacht Club Games, with the developer also listed as publisher. It launched in 2017 at $9.99 and has 449 Steam reviews marked mixed with 0% positive.
Overview
Shovel Knight: Specter of Torment is a 2017 Action game developed by Yacht Club Games and published by Yacht Club Games. On Steam it has gathered 451 player reviews, 94% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on linux, mac, windows, and launched at $10. 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 23,000 to 54,000 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: Specter of Torment can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
451
Positive
94%
Steam appid
589510
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.023K to 54K
units (median: 38K)
≈ $131K to $306K modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2017 | +30 |
| price_$10 | -5 |
| positive_94% | +10 |
| final NB | 85 |
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: Specter of Torment at roughly 23,000 to 54,000 copies, with a median around 38,000, derived from its 451 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $219K 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
8 observed days · window low $7.49Across 8 observed UTC days from 2026-07-15 to 2026-07-22, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $7.49 to $9.99. The tracked-window low was $7.49 on 2026-07-16.
Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.
Where to buy
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Platforms
linuxmacwindows
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Shovel Knight: Specter of Torment sold?
- indielist estimates Shovel Knight: Specter of Torment has sold between 23,001 and 53,669 units (median 38,335), derived from its 451 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Shovel Knight: Specter of Torment?
- Shovel Knight: Specter of Torment was developed by Yacht Club Games and published by Yacht Club Games.
- Who published Shovel Knight: Specter of Torment?
- Shovel Knight: Specter of Torment 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: Specter of Torment released?
- Shovel Knight: Specter of Torment was released in 2017.
- How many reviews does Shovel Knight: Specter of Torment have on Steam?
- Shovel Knight: Specter of Torment has 451 Steam reviews, of which 94% are positive.
- Is Shovel Knight: Specter of Torment worth playing?
- Steam players rate Shovel Knight: Specter of Torment 94% positive across 451 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.
Ecosystem
Players looking for games like Shovel Knight: Specter of Torment can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Action titles such as Rust, Terraria, Phasmophobia, ARK: Survival Evolved, 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: Specter of Torment 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: Specter of Torment 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.
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