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Hollow Knight is a 2017 Metroidvania with 700,000 Steam reviews (97% positive). Developed by Team Cherry and self-published, it features Souls-like combat and atmospheric exploration. Initial price was $14.99.
Overview
Hollow Knight is a 2017 Action game developed by Team Cherry and published by Team Cherry. On Steam it has gathered 495,505 player reviews, 97% 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 $15. The pairing of developer Team Cherry with publisher Team Cherry 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 26.8 million to 62.4 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, Hollow Knight can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
495,505
Positive
97%
Steam appid
367520
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
9,589
Fresh snapshot · · 24h peak 10,430
Sales estimate
v1.026.8M to 62.4M
units (median: 44.6M)
≈ $229.1M to $534.6M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2017 | +30 |
| price_$15 | 0 |
| positive_97% | +10 |
| final NB | 90 |
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 Hollow Knight at roughly 26.8 million to 62.4 million copies, with a median around 44.6 million, derived from its 495,505 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $381.8M 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
55 observed days · window low $7.49Across 55 observed UTC days from 2026-05-15 to 2026-07-24, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $7.49 to $14.99. The tracked-window low was $7.49 on 2026-05-15.
Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.
Where to buy
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Platforms
linuxmacwindows
Tags
MetroidvaniaSouls-likePlatformerGreat Soundtrack2DDifficultIndieSingleplayerAtmosphericExplorationAdventureStory RichHand-drawnMultiple EndingsActionDark FantasyOpen WorldCuteControllerSide Scroller
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Hollow Knight sold?
- indielist estimates Hollow Knight has sold between 26,757,270 and 62,433,630 units (median 44,595,450), derived from its 495,505 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Hollow Knight?
- Hollow Knight was developed by Team Cherry and published by Team Cherry.
- Who published Hollow Knight?
- Hollow Knight was published by Team Cherry, developed by Team Cherry. See Team Cherry's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was Hollow Knight released?
- Hollow Knight was released in 2017.
- How many reviews does Hollow Knight have on Steam?
- Hollow Knight has 495,505 Steam reviews, of which 97% are positive.
- Is Hollow Knight worth playing?
- Steam players rate Hollow Knight 97% positive across 495,505 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 Hollow Knight can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Action titles such as Celeste, Rain World, Nine Sols, Salt and Sanctuary, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Team Cherry's other releases and Team Cherry's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Hollow Knight 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 Hollow Knight 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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- N
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- S
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- E
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- D
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