How much revenue did Metal Heads make?

$4k–$11k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Metal Heads sell?

Q: How many copies did Metal Heads sell?

1k to 2k copies, based on its 42 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1k–2k; $4k–$11k after Steam's cut $7k–$17k before Steam's cut; from 42 reviews (Mixed)

Copies are estimated from the public review count, adjusted for release year, and cross-checked against SteamSpy's own estimate.

Did the prediction match what actually happened?

We hid Metal Heads and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Metal Heads's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 741–2.5M

best case 29.9M (Among Us)

Games like Metal Heads

A typical game among these

≈ 741–2.5M copies

≈ $4k–$14.3M after Steam's cut

from ~10k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019's Steam releases earned $34k or more before Steam's cut, so plan for that or less.

4 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Among Us at ≈ 22.8M–37.0M copies, ≈ $31.3M–$84.0M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 13 reviews in their first month; the range was 1 to 13.

Games with under about 100 reviews in month one almost never recover.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Party Game (5 of 8) and 4 Player Local (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Social Deduction + Space, priced around $5.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2016 to 2024, and 1 of the 8 shipped in the last two years.

How these numbers were worked out

A hit here: 1,000+ reviews, roughly $150k+ before Steam's cut (a standard indie benchmark).

Copies come from each game's reviews times a sales-per-review rate that falls with release age, from about 31 for the most recent game here to about 52 for the oldest, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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