How much revenue did Metal Slug Tactics make?

$262k–$705k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Metal Slug Tactics sell?

Q: How many copies did Metal Slug Tactics sell?

38k to 62k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 38k–62k; $262k–$705k after Steam's cut $477k–$1.1M before the cut; from 2k reviews (Mostly 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 Metal Slug Tactics out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Metal Slug Tactics's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 736k–1.3M

best case 27.2M (The Forest)

Games like Metal Slug Tactics

The middle of these games

≈ 736k–1.3M copies

≈ $7.1M–$15.5M after Steam's cut

from ~26k 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: The Forest at ≈ 20.7M–33.6M copies, ≈ $113.8M–$305.9M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 10k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 5k to 16k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Character Customization (5 of 8) and Turn-Based Strategy (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Tactical RPG + Turn-Based Strategy, priced around $32. The breakout hits carry Exploration + Open World Survival Craft + Survival; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2017 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 43 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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