How many copies has The Knightling sold on Steam?

Steam estimates put The Knightling at 13.6K units sold on Steam lifetime, generating $203K in estimated premium revenue (Steam estimates, snapshot 2026-10-09).

Steam sales estimate

The library has little or no coverage of The Knightling specifically — none of the supplied library documents discuss this title, so the figures below come from live data and web sources rather than curated industry reports.

According to Steam sales estimates (snapshot 2026-10-09), which cover Steam only and measure estimated gross premium (paid) revenue:

These are Steam figures only; console sales are not included. Revenue is estimated gross premium (paid) revenue.

Player activity and reception

• According to SteamDB, "Steam player count for The Knightling is currently 14 players live. The Knightling had an all-time peak of 223 concurrent players on 30 August 2025"87.
• According to Steam live data, The Knightling currently shows 20 players, with 549 reviews at 87% positive ("Very Positive"), priced at 4,79€, in the Action, Adventure, Indie genres, developed by Twirlbound, released 28 Aug, 2025 (Steam live data).

The gap between the review-based picture and the sales estimate is worth noting: Steam's own live review count sits at 549 reviews, while the sales estimate lists 544 reviews — the two are essentially the same snapshot, but the estimated unit figure of 13.6K is drawn from the sales model rather than from any publisher disclosure.

Context: how the estimate relates to review counts

Library documents describe the general convention used to read Steam review counts against sales, though none of them address The Knightling:

• GameDiscoverCo's "How That Game Sold on Steam, Using the 'NB Number'" (2020) explains the underlying logic: "we would love to know roughly how many copies of games are sold on Steam, for comparison and planning reasons when we make games. That data is not public. But the number of player reviews is public."22
• The same publication notes that the ratio has shifted: as of late 2019 "there's now a prompt for players to review games in the Steam interface," and "my impression is that 'lifetime reviews to sales ratio' has come down quite a bit in recent years"4.
• More recently, GameDiscoverCo described its "generally agreed range" as "20 to 60 sales per review," citing a title with 548 units sold and 8 reviews for a ratio of 68.510.
• Alinea Analytics' DLC analysis cites a different band, noting that Steam reviews are commonly multiplied "and saying 'oh, maybe that's the sales for that game'… Wow, 177 copies sold per review is a hecka outlier. (We rarely see >100x, tho we've seen as low as 15x.)"44

Applying none of these ratios is necessary here — the sales estimate above is provided directly — but the sources show the range is wide and no single multiplier is treated as authoritative.

Gaps in coverage

The supplied library documents contain no coverage of The Knightling or its developer Twirlbound. Only Steam's live listing83 and SteamDB's chart page87 address the title directly. No publisher-reported or console sales figure for the game appears in any source, and the Steam estimate covers Steam only — console sales are not included.