How big is the Metroidvania market on Steam?

A typical Metroidvania game sells 431k to 700k copies, and the top decile 2.1M to 3.4M, based on the 54 games SteamSpy lists for the tag (its visible subset). Labeled estimates from review counts, not exact sales.

What Metroidvania games usually sell on Steam

What Metroidvania games sell on Steam, shown two ways: a SteamSpy sample of the whole genre, and the Metroidvania games people have looked up here.

The whole genre, from SteamSpy's sample

A typical game sells

≈ 431k–700k copies

$2.4M–$6.4M after Steam's cut, est.

The top decile

≈ 2.1M–3.4M copies

$11.4M–$30.6M after Steam's cut, est.

Half the reviews in SteamSpy's sample of 54 Metroidvania games sit with 6 of them.

Based on the 54 Metroidvania games SteamSpy listed on November 15, 2026. It misses the games that barely sold, so these figures flatter the genre. Games are grouped by the tags players give them, which are applied loosely, so a genre's edges are fuzzy. Copies are SteamSpy estimates from review counts, not exact sales.

The Metroidvania games gathered on wishvane

Across the 345 Metroidvania games compared here, a typical one sells ≈ 32k–141k copies (est.), with the biggest of them, Hollow Knight, at ≈ 19.5M–31.6M. These are the games people chose to compare, not a sample of the genre, so they run far larger than SteamSpy's figures above.

The Metroidvania games gathered here span 2008 to 2026, and 92 of them shipped in the last two years.
The biggest Metroidvania games here share nothing more specific than the genre; individually they lead with Anime and Bullet Hell.
Across the Metroidvania games gathered here a typical price is $14.99, and the biggest charge more, around $22.

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