How much revenue did METAL SLUG ATTACK RELOADED make?

$117k–$314k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did METAL SLUG ATTACK RELOADED sell?

Q: How many copies did METAL SLUG ATTACK RELOADED sell?

43k to 69k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 43k–69k; $117k–$314k after Steam's cut $212k–$483k before Steam's cut; from 2k 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 SLUG ATTACK RELOADED and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including METAL SLUG ATTACK RELOADED's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1k–38k

best case 98k (Pixel Starships)

Games like METAL SLUG ATTACK RELOADED

A typical game among these

≈ 1k–38k copies

≈ $3k–$41k after Steam's cut

from ~123 reviews

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

2 of the 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Building (4 of 8), so its genre is hard to place.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: Pixel Starships at ≈ 75k–122k copies.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 42 reviews in their first month; the range was 15 to 2k.

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

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Building (4 of 8) and Tower Defense (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Sci-fi + Space.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2011 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 79 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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Pixel Starships 2023	Est. copies ≈ 75k–122k 25x vs typical SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue Free	Free	3k reviews Mostly Positive	Sci-fiSpace
Dwarfs!? 2011	Est. copies ≈ 68k–111k 8.8x vs typical SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $188k–$505k after Steam's cut $341k–$776k before Steam's cut	$9.99	1k reviews Mostly Positive	DwarfColony Sim
Making it Home 2021	Est. copies ≈ 992–2k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $3k–$7k after Steam's cut $5k–$11k before Steam's cut	$9.99	40 reviews Positive	BuildingSandbox
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