How much revenue did Metal Bringer make?

$161k–$434k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Metal Bringer sell?

Q: How many copies did Metal Bringer sell?

29k to 48k copies, based on its 1k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 29k–48k; $161k–$434k after Steam's cut $293k–$668k before Steam's cut; from 1k reviews (Very 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 Bringer and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Metal Bringer's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2k–22k

best case 67k (Oblivion Override)

Games like Metal Bringer

A typical game among these

≈ 2k–22k copies

≈ $15k–$129k after Steam's cut

from ~269 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.

Best case: Oblivion Override at ≈ 51k–83k copies, ≈ $252k–$677k after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 200 reviews in their first month; the range was 12 to 1k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Action Roguelike (6 of 8) and Hack and Slash (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Action Roguelike + Hack and Slash, priced around $18.
When they shipped: 4 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years, so this genre 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 of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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