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Action indie game Metal Slug Tactics was released in 2024 by developer leikir-studio and publisher dotemu. It has 1,122 Steam reviews marked mixed, with an initial price of $24.99 and no listed engine.
Overview
Metal Slug Tactics is a 2024 Action game developed by Leikir Studio and published by Dotemu. On Steam it has gathered 1,136 player reviews, 77% of them positive, which counts as a mostly positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $25. The pairing of developer Leikir Studio with publisher Dotemu is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Action projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 37,000 to 87,000 units, with the full Boxleiter factor breakdown shown on this page rather than a single black-box figure. Within indielist's catalog of indie games mapped to their studios, publishers, and funding, Metal Slug Tactics can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
1,136
Positive
77%
Steam appid
1590760
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.037K to 87K
units (median: 62K)
≈ $535K to $1.2M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2024 | 0 |
| price_$25 | +5 |
| positive_77% | 0 |
| final NB | 55 |
Heuristic display range: median × [0.6, 1.4]. Boundary protection: NB ∈ [15, 150].
Methodology & limitations
Sales estimates use an additive Boxleiter-derived heuristic against public Steam review
counts. They are not authoritative sales data, and the fixed display range
is not a statistically validated confidence interval. Actual results may fall outside it,
especially for deeply discounted or bundle-heavy titles. Algorithm version
v1.0. Read the exact method and validation status.
indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for Metal Slug Tactics at roughly 37,000 to 87,000 copies, with a median around 62,000, derived from its 1,136 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $892K in net revenue after Steam's 30% cut, regional pricing, and refunds. Unlike black-box trackers, the full calculation is shown on this page: a base review-to-sales multiplier is adjusted for release year, launch price, review sentiment, studio size, and genre, and every adjustment is listed so developers, publishers, and investors can audit exactly how the figure was reached. The range itself reflects genuine uncertainty — review-to-sales ratios vary widely between games — so indielist publishes a low, median, and high band rather than a false-precision single number, and treats free-to-play, heavily discounted, and bundle-distributed titles as having wider error margins still.
Price history
9 observed days · window low $14.99Across 9 observed UTC days from 2026-07-15 to 2026-07-24, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $14.99 to $14.99. The tracked-window low was $14.99 on 2026-07-15.
Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.
Where to buy
Affiliate disclosure- Steam reference -40%$14.99 Buy
- Humble Store$24.99 Buy
- GOG.com$24.99 Buy
- Green Man Gaming
- Fanatical
Latest tracked store observations (2026-07-24 05:47 UTC), cheapest first. Prices may have changed since observation. Some are affiliate links — we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. Learn more.
Platforms
windows
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Metal Slug Tactics sold?
- indielist estimates Metal Slug Tactics has sold between 37,488 and 87,472 units (median 62,480), derived from its 1,136 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Metal Slug Tactics?
- Metal Slug Tactics was developed by Leikir Studio and published by Dotemu.
- Who published Metal Slug Tactics?
- Metal Slug Tactics was published by Dotemu, developed by Leikir Studio. See Dotemu's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was Metal Slug Tactics released?
- Metal Slug Tactics was released in 2024.
- How many reviews does Metal Slug Tactics have on Steam?
- Metal Slug Tactics has 1,136 Steam reviews, of which 77% are positive.
- Is Metal Slug Tactics worth playing?
- Steam players rate Metal Slug Tactics 77% positive across 1,136 reviews. indielist doesn't score games editorially; it surfaces public review sentiment and a white-box sales estimate so you can judge reception and reach yourself.
Ecosystem
Players looking for games like Metal Slug Tactics can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Action titles such as Rust, Terraria, Phasmophobia, ARK: Survival Evolved, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Leikir Studio's other releases and Dotemu's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Metal Slug Tactics sits among a studio's body of work and how its publisher's portfolio performs. Because indielist maps studios, publishers, games, and funding into one connected graph, the same Metal Slug Tactics page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Action game, developers studying how comparable projects were positioned and what they sold, and investors tracing which teams and labels are active in the space. A machine-readable markdown mirror of this page is published at the same path with a .md suffix for AI assistants, and its review, price, and sales-estimate figures are refreshed on a schedule rather than frozen at launch.
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