Mina the Hollower Sold 55,000 Units on Steam in Under 1 Day - Sales
by William D'Angelo , posted on 29 May 2026 / 4,953 Views
Developer Yacht Club Games Co-Founder David D'Angelo in an interview with Bloomberg revealed Mina the Hollower has sold around 55,000 units on PC via Steam as of this morning. Console sales are not yet available.
This compares to Shovel Knight selling around 75,000 units in its first week across Steam, Wii U, and 3DS.
"If we don’t sell a million copies, I’m going to be disappointed," said director and co-founder Sean Velasco.
Mina the Hollower launched at $20, which everyone on the team agreed on.
"Everyone came in ready to say, 'I want the game to be $20,'" said Velasco. "Everyone said the same thing."
Velasco added, "We don’t want the price to be something that anyone is even going to question. If we didn’t think we’d make more money doing this, we wouldn’t be doing it."
Mina the Hollower released for the Nintendo Switch 2, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC via Steam, GOG, and Humble Store on May 29.
A life-long and avid gamer, William D'Angelo was first introduced to VGChartz in 2007. After years of supporting the site, he was brought on in 2010 as a junior analyst, working his way up to lead analyst in 2012 and taking over the hardware estimates in 2017. He has expanded his involvement in the gaming community by producing content on his own YouTube channel and Twitch channel. You can follow the author on Bluesky.
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It's also number 1 on the US switch 2 eshop
Just like Shovel Knight I expect over half the sales to come from Nintendo.
It will do great on Switch. It's that kind of game.
That's not huge at all especially with the hype but the legs will tell..
This is Steam sales only in under one day. It is available on every major console as well. We shall see once the devs report sales that include console numbers.
Obvious, but with weeks with games that sell millions in a day or few days + this game is only 14.99 and is from the succesfull shovel Knight..
I think the hype will more be seen in later days sales, I've only started to hear of it. Not "especially huge" launch but clearly a very successful one, especially looking at it's scope/8-bit aesthetic. I can't remember the last 8bit game to have a crazy launch?
Probably 200k day one across platforms. Will probably do 1m in a week
As somebody who almost exclusively uses my Switch 2 for first-party and PC for all else (including indies), Mina running at 120fps on Switch 2 was a no brainer. So I’m optimistic that sales figures aren’t as low as the 50k figure suggests, esp with the game charting no. 1 on US eShop.
Promising start. That million number will be coming up quickly.
I hope we can get news of it reaching 500K total sales soon.
