How much revenue did Metal Slug Tactics make?

$268k–$721k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Metal Slug Tactics sell?

Q: How many copies did Metal Slug Tactics sell?

39k to 63k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 39k–63k; $268k–$721k after Steam's cut $487k–$1.1M before Steam's cut; from 2k reviews (Mostly Positive)

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

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 739k–1.3M

best case 27.3M (The Forest)

Games like Metal Slug Tactics

A typical game among these

≈ 739k–1.3M copies

≈ $7.1M–$15.8M after Steam's cut

from ~26k reviews

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

All 8 of the similar games are hits.

Best case: The Forest at ≈ 20.8M–33.7M copies, ≈ $114.2M–$306.9M after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 10k reviews in their first month; the range was 5k to 16k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Character Customization (5 of 8) and Turn-Based Strategy (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Tactical RPG + Turn-Based Strategy, priced around $32. The breakout hits carry Exploration + Open World Survival Craft + Survival; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2017 to 2023, and none of them 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 43 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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The Forest 2018	Est. copies ≈ 20.8M–33.7M 26x vs typical SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue $114.2M–$306.9M after Steam's cut $207.5M–$472.2M before Steam's cut	$19.99	683k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Open World Survival CraftSurvival
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