How many copies did Metal War Online: Retribution sell?

53k to 86k copies, based on its 1k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

How much revenue did Metal War Online: Retribution make?

Metal War Online: Retribution is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How big is Metal War Online: Retribution?

Estimated owners: ≈ 53k–86k; from 1k reviews (Mixed)

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

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 871–99k

best case 8.4M (World of Tanks Blitz)

Games like Metal War Online: Retribution

The middle of these games

≈ 871–99k copies

≈ $470–$102k after Steam's cut

from ~286 reviews

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

3 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: World of Tanks Blitz at ≈ 6.4M–10.4M copies.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 26 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 2 to 1k.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Tanks (6 of 8) and Shooter (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Tanks + Shooter.
The era: The games you compared span 2016 to 2024, and 2 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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