How much revenue did METALLIC CHILD make?

$211k–$568k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did METALLIC CHILD sell?

Q: How many copies did METALLIC CHILD sell?

31k to 50k copies, based on its 1k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 31k–50k; $211k–$568k after Steam's cut $384k–$873k before the cut; from 1k reviews (Very Positive)

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

Does this actually work?

We left METALLIC CHILD out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including METALLIC CHILD's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 932k–3.9M

best case 4.2M (Cult of the Lamb)

Games like METALLIC CHILD

The middle of these games

≈ 932k–3.9M copies

≈ $7.1M–$21.4M after Steam's cut

from ~49k 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: Cult of the Lamb at ≈ 3.2M–5.2M copies, ≈ $21.9M–$58.9M 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 2k to 42k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Action Roguelike (6 of 8) and Rogue-like (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Base-Building + Action Roguelike, priced around $25.
The era: The games you compared span 2016 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 52 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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