How much revenue did MEAT AND METAL make?

$81–$219 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did MEAT AND METAL sell?

Q: How many copies did MEAT AND METAL sell?

99 to 161 copies, based on its 4 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 99–161; $81–$219 after Steam's cut $148–$337 before Steam's cut; from 4 reviews (4 user reviews); Only 4 reviews so far, so that range swings on one or two people. Read it as a hint, not a measurement.

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 MEAT AND METAL and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including MEAT AND METAL's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 610–50k

best case 799k (Roboquest)

Games like MEAT AND METAL

A typical game among these

≈ 610–50k copies

≈ $1k–$334k after Steam's cut

from ~43 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: Roboquest at ≈ 608k–989k copies, ≈ $4.2M–$11.2M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

The games that made it here had under 11k reviews in their first month.

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

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share FPS (8 of 8) and Shooter (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with FPS + Action Roguelike, priced around $25.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2014 to 2025, and 3 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 70 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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