How much revenue did Metal March make?

$927–$2k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Metal March sell?

Q: How many copies did Metal March sell?

422 to 685 copies, based on its 17 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 422–685; $927–$2k after Steam's cut $2k–$4k before the cut; from 17 reviews (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 March out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Metal March's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 41k–265k

best case 746k (Monster Train)

Games like Metal March

The middle of these games

≈ 41k–265k copies

≈ $186k–$2.2M after Steam's cut

from ~5k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

6 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Monster Train at ≈ 569k–924k copies, ≈ $3.9M–$10.5M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 3k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 262 to 6k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Card Battler (8 of 8) and Card Game (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Card Battler + Rogue-lite, priced around $25.
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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