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How many copies did METAL GEAR SOLID - Master Collection Version sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 147k–238k
$806k–$2.2M after Steam's cut $1.5M–$3.3M before the cut
from 6k reviews (Very Positive)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

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We left METAL GEAR SOLID - Master Collection Version out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including METAL GEAR SOLID - Master Collection Version's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.5M–3.8M
best case 7.5M (Far Cry® 5)
Games like METAL GEAR SOLID - Master Collection Version

The middle of these games

≈ 1.5M–3.8M copies

≈ $32.9M–$81.3M after Steam's cut

from ~72k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

All 8 of your similar games are hits.

Best case: Far Cry® 5 at ≈ 5.7M–9.3M copies, ≈ $94.7M–$254.7M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here
About half the games that made it here had over 16k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 5k to 30k.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Story Rich (8 of 8) and Action-Adventure (6 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Open World + Action-Adventure, priced around $60.
The era
4 of your 8 similar games shipped in the last two years, so this niche is actively shipping.
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 38 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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