How much revenue did Metal Golem: First Contact make?

$28–$73 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Metal Golem: First Contact sell?

Q: How many copies did Metal Golem: First Contact sell?

25 to 40 copies, based on its 1 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 25–40; $28–$73 after Steam's cut $50–$112 before the cut; from 1 reviews (1 user reviews); Thin evidence: 1 review. That range swings on one or two people, so read it as a hint, not a measurement.

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 Golem: First Contact out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Metal Golem: First Contact's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 165k–779k

best case 3.8M (Brotato)

Games like Metal Golem: First Contact

The middle of these games

≈ 165k–779k copies

≈ $486k–$4.3M after Steam's cut

from ~8k 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: Brotato at ≈ 2.9M–4.8M copies, ≈ $4.0M–$10.8M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 4k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 591 to 42k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Action Roguelike (6 of 8) and Bullet Hell (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Rogue-like + Action Roguelike, priced around $5.
The era: The games you compared span 2016 to 2025, and 3 of your 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 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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