How much revenue did Metal Thunder make?

$45k–$120k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Metal Thunder sell?

Q: How many copies did Metal Thunder sell?

15k to 24k copies, based on its 597 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 15k–24k; $45k–$120k after Steam's cut $81k–$185k before the cut; from 597 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 Thunder out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Metal Thunder's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 82k–130k

best case 1.7M (Besiege)

Games like Metal Thunder

The middle of these games

≈ 82k–130k copies

≈ $388k–$704k after Steam's cut

from ~3k 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.

Your picks lean toward this genre's biggest survivors; the typical figure reads from its ordinary successes.

Best case: Besiege at ≈ 1.3M–2.1M copies, ≈ $5.4M–$14.6M 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 3k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 1k to 31k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Flight (5 of 8) and Space (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Space + Action-Adventure, priced around $25. The breakout hits carry Simulation + Sandbox + Building; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2017 to 2024, and 1 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 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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